Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taking Vocal. The French Foreign Office, which thought that, having made a pact with Russia, it could take a high hand with Britain and the U.S., realized that it had made a mistake. Yalta had made it clear that France rated no higher in Moscow than in London and Washington. Then France demanded changes in Dumbarton Oaks and, to her surprise, it was Stalin rather than Roosevelt or Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet...
...Metropolitan Opera's gilt-framed stage for the first time. Making her debut as Fricka in Die Walküre, Blanche Thebom (pronounced thee-bum), 25, threw Manhattan's normally low-pressure music critics into fits of excitement: "Remarkable! ... a natural . . . strikingly handsome . . . exceptional vocal endowments...
...problem faced the New York Post Syndicate, which signed Welles to a three-year contract: would the column hold Welles's interest, as well as the reader's? Welles, who has taken a Hollywood highbrow's vocal interest in the world since 1940, was reassuring. "Right now I'm much more interested in politics and foreign affairs than I am in the theater," said he. "I have set up my life in such a way that I can spend more than occasional time on these interests...
...score ranges from ballet accompaniment with, animated gusto to lilting vocal melodies such an "Lucky to be Me" and "Lonely Town." Perhaps it is wishful thinking, but every note seemed to have the distant Gorshwin favor...
FLORENCE KIRK, Philadelphia-born dramatic soprano, who sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with a few vocal wobbles, but who acted it like an attractive conflagration...