Word: vocalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Barrymore refuses to let all this give anybody the creeps. Seldom offstage, and extremely vocal, blunt and racy when on, she plays her role with a huge gusto and humor that never degenerate into caricature. The same cannot be said of Playwright Langley's handling of his plot...
...Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto Anderson's laurels. The voice was Dorothy Maynor's (TIME, Aug. 21), plump, Norfolk-born daughter of a Methodist minister, who had been studying for several years with courtly Manhattan Vocal Coach John Alan Haughton. The picked audience of musicians and critics who heard her run the gamut from Wagnerian hallelujahs to coloratura tinkletones spoke of her as a native Flagstad...
...comparison with the frequent instrumental concerts which we hear all through the season, choral programs are extremely rare in Cambridge. This week, however, two long concerts of vocal music will be given here. Tomorrow evening the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras will perform jointly a program made up of accompanied choruses by Bach, Handel, and Dargomyzhski; works by Bach, Purcell and Beethoven for orchestra, and a group of traditional songs for chorus alone...
...annual Yale concert is about the only occasion on which the Glee Club sings this type of program in Cambridge. It is an excellent opportunity for those who have heard these singers only in joint performances of the heavier type of vocal music to see how effective they are in the smaller works where the direct human appeal of the voice is most impressive...
Henderson and Palmer do warn against the old-fashioned maestro who teaches affectation and artificial pretension but they actually recommend using a teacher who "honestly understands and sympathizes with your goal" (of singing to the masses). There are many enlightened vocal teachers in the country today whose business might be unjustly affected by the mistaken inference that this book, destined to become the authority on the subject, advises against their employment...