Word: vocalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honey Jump (Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; Victor). A riffing tune performed by a relatively new band with plenty of polish. The vocal on the other side is Time to Dream, sung by Baritone Joe Mooney, who likes to squeeze his words out one by one. The suspense is unjustified...
Hoosier Tunesmith Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael, getting set to replace NBC Comics Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca for the summer, beat the television critics to the punch with a quick self-appraisal of his vocal talents: "You can't take too much of my voice. I play my records three times and then I can't stand them. It sounds awful monotonous...
...Cambridge Quartet, a vocal ensemble, brought the local concert season to a close last Tuesday with a program of unfamiliar music by well known composers as well as some often-heard works given new vitality by authentic and highly sensitive performances. French chansons by Lassus and Debussy provided some striking and not dissimilar harmonic colorings; and two selections by Ravel displayed a sophisticated yet exuberant treatment of folk-like parables...
...heart of the program consisted of six Haydn songs and both sets of Brahms Liebeslieder waltzes. These works were originally intended for vocal quartet, though they are often sung by choruses. The Cambridge Quartet showed, however, that a performance by only four voices has the advantage of a more distinct transmission of the text, a subtler grading of nuances, and the lighter tone quality which keeps such richy-harmonized music form sounding overly-lush...
...wine, after invoking the services of a good-natured Bacchus. The Soprano decides that the conquest of a god would give immortal proof of her powers. The Satyrs push the unwilling Bacchus into her arms, but he soon grows sated with her singing. "The only cure for excessive vocal production is immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes and soon beguiles him back to Elysium. The disappointed Soprano is certain she can still have the mathematician, but he and the Satyrs mock her vocal advances. "Love is a sickness full...