Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the most gifted must approach the performance of German lieder with utmost concentration of vocal and intellectual capabilities. Musically, these songs demand controlled tone-color and intonation that come from years of training. At the same time, the singer must make the all-important text meaningful to the listeners without resorting to the cruder acting techniques of opera...
...type to attract a Carmen, but he makes the big scenes convincing. Pearl Bailey, through the second half of the film, lolls around superbly under feather boas, dragging her weight in rhinestones and "livin' off de fatheads of de land." And in one scene, using her own inimitable vocal cords, she belts out the Chanson Boheme as they never heard it in old Bohemia...
...spite of an operation five years ago for removal of a cyst on her esophagus that endangered her voice. Today Contralto Anderson can almost equal the vocal glory of her best years...
...many music merchants has long looked like arid territory, a profitable but unsung musical monster is flourishing. Billed as "Gospel and Spiritual All-Nite Sing," it is colloquially called "gospel boogie" or, more earthily, "jumping for Jesus." It takes the form of regular shows in Southern cities, featuring vocal quartets and attended by capacity crowds who come to be entertained and, occasionally, converted...
...them. In a private talk with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, Butler explained one of the biggest hurdles: politics. Recent polls had shown a startling increase in Labor popularity. If an election were held today, Labor would probably win. Though the Labor leadership have not committed themselves, vocal Labor irregulars like ex-Secretary of War John Strachey have been loudly insisting that a Labor government would re-impose currency controls "in a matter of days." If the Tory government made sterling convertible, speculators would rush to change their money into dollars before Labor won an election and blocked them...