Word: vocalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President was startled by the antagonism displayed by the little businessmen (see p. 11 ) toward him and his Administration, he did not indicate it, for he let them run wild on the front page. In the uproar over foreign policy (see col. 2) he took no visible part. With vocal Congressmen trying desperately to force him to redefine his stand, the closest approach to a statement on foreign policy the President made last week was a little speech made to a visiting group of Protestant ministers. The President, an Episcopal warden, said...
Like his contemporaries, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler (Symphony No. 1), Delius went to Friedrich Nietzsche's ode to the superman,Thus Spake Zarathustra, for inspiration, converted portions of its Biblical German oratory into choruses and vocal solos, illustrated its moods with a surging orchestral undercurrent. His Nietzschean Mass, which requires over an hour and a half to perform, is so perfectly formed and climaxed that the listener's interest never lags-a pretty sure sign, in a pieqe of that size, that a great musical mind has been at work...
...year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski was the sensation of the Philharmonic-Symphony season (TIME, March 29), prowled the stage like a maimed tigress, managed to give Strauss's frantic, maniacal heroine a quality of grandeur. Undaunted by gut-busting vocal hurdles, she sang, moaned and screamed her part, heating every note with emotion. Critics unanimously confirmed her European reputation as No. i Elektra and an artist of phenomenal ability...
...newsorgans in which energetic Brendan Bracken has an interest is the Financial News. Last week none of his friends needed to be told who had written for this London paper "HOW TO CREATE A DEPRESSION-President Roosevelt's Recipe-By a Correspondent." Ex- cerpts: "Mr. Roosevelt, like most vocal humanitarians, is a great hater. . . . Roosevelt's punitive mind is mirrored in the drastic extension of the Capital Gains Tax. . . . Working men may be forgiven for thinking that Mr. Roosevelt's passion for half-baked reforms has reformed them out of their jobs. . . . As a result...
...Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...