Word: vocal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This singing of the trainees had its beginning last November, when the men used to break into song spontaneously, on hikes. Since the beginning of March, however, organization has been the order, and the vocal renderings of the marchers has come under the jurisdiction of the School...
...assess Mr. Roosevelt. The Republican Party has two schools of thought about him. Two methods of assessment. One wing rather casually sometimes speaks of him 'trippingly on the tongue' as 'that God damn Roosevelt,' short, snappy and staccato-but without grinding the vocal gears. The other crowd snarls it savagely, adagio, making two words out of God-like Gaw-ud-and two out of damn-like da-yam-growled with heart-pumping scorn and generally with a table-pounding drum beat. I belong to the lighter, staccato left wing...
Perhaps the most violent Carmen in operatic history was offered last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria-with a real soldiers' chorus. The idea germinated in the head of 23-year-old Corporal John Harrold of nearby Fort Hancock, former student at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. Corporal Harrold himself sang Don José. All other male roles were also sung by sweating Fort Hancockers. The Fort Hancock band blasted out a Carmen medley in lieu of the usual overture. Private Lanni Russell hurled himself into an interpolated tap dance (music not by Bizet...
Early in his studies Soundman Burris-Meyer discovered a few essential don'ts. For example: 1) hymns slow production almost to the stopping point; 2) Deep in the Heart of Texas prompts workers to clap their hands and let production go hang; 3) vocal refrains tend to distract rather than to stimulate; 4) music during the last 20 minutes of the working day is likely to be taken as a signal to pack up and go home. Burris-Meyer did not even attempt to play Strip Polka, for fear of provoking a complete breakdown of production...
Featured at the dance, which will be held at the Hotel Plaza in New York, will be Ella Fitzgerald. Backing this well-known singer will be the Four Keys, a vocal and musical harmony group, offering Art Furness on the bass, Bill Furness on the piano, Slim Furness on the electric guitar and Ernie Hat-field doing the honors in vocal work...