Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked his way up during the Depression to become a district assistant manager for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Loving but stern, he was the kind of patriarch who had never even seen the inside of his wife's kitchen. He had never seen the inside of the vocal world either, but he knew what he thought of it. He ruled: "Bubbles is going to college and become a teacher." It was Mama, the one behind the lessons and the radio appearances, who stood fast. "The two boys will go to college and be smart," she said. "This...
...Callas left off. Callas, now virtually retired, had a soaring, flexible voice that projected a matchless dramatic intensity. In the 1950s, among other roles, she almost singlehanded revived the ornate bel canto repertory of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. (Bel canto, literally "beautiful singing," more properly applies to the whole vocal art of making the fiendishly difficult sound easy.) It is this repertory that Beverly and her chief coloratura rival, Joan Sutherland (see box, page 81), have since then mastered. Beverly comes by the bel canto tradition not only through her admiration for Callas, but through years of study with...
...sides of his family, was plying Mama with books, flowers and Yiddishisms?"A toast to MGM, meine ganze Mishpocheh [all my family]." In 1956 the couple were married in Estelle Liebling's living room, standing on the same spot on the rug where Bubbles had stood for so many vocal lessons...
...until her husband, Conductor Richard Bonynge, tricked her into extending her upper voice by playing her music in higher keys. Originally bright and youthful-sounding, her voice darkened as she transformed herself into a coloratura. There is a suggestion of Callas' famous middle register in Sutherland's vocal center-a tone that sounds as if the singer were singing into the neck of a resonant bottle...
...resistance to change is strong, and no speedy revolution of U.S. medicine is in sight. What is happening amounts to a slow, often painful evolution that is shaping a new kind of doctor. He still represents only a vocal minority, but his attitudes are significant: - >He is more like his grandfather than his father, preferring the model of the old general practitioner to that of the specialist or researcher. The modish catch phrases and aspirations are "community medicine, " "family medicine," "household medicine." He recognizes the inadequacies of the old G.P., but thinks that better training can overcome them. He acknowledges...