Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rigoletto, despite some of the most grippingly grisly melodrama in grand opera, is distinctly dated. Whenever Gilda has a spare moment, the orchestra lapses into a kind of soft-shoe accompaniment, leaving wide-open spaces for her graceful vocal glides and glitters. Soprano Dobbs sounded smooth as cashmere beside the tweedy textures of Tenor Jan Peerce and Baritone Leonard Warren. Her phrasing was always neat and true; in lyrical passages her voice floated with never an edge. In Verdi's showy old coloratura bits, e.g., Caro Nome, it glittered clear and bright as a glockenspiel in a football band...
Hers is a carnival kind of talent, not naturally adapted to the chic mannerisms, the sexy wiggles or the whining American vocal inflections that she often attempts, but a pleasant one nevertheless...
...Singer Lee Wiley-a matter of pleasure to others and pride to herself, but bothersome nonetheless. She stands quietly before her audience, looking sweet-faced as the college girl she recently was, smiling a slow, shy smile. Her singing voice is satisfyingly low, delightfully sandy, bewitchingly intimate, and her vocal style is almost like speaking, conveying a rare sense of lucidity and conviction. She sings many-too many-unfamiliar numbers, e.g., You Irritate Me So, This Is Where Love Walked In, Honey in the Honeycomb, as well as more recognizable show tunes and the kind of attractive oldies that always...
...most vocal anti-administration organ at Brown is the Brown Daily Herald. In its treatment of this student paper, the University has often appeared somewhat repressive. Although there is no outright censorship of the paper, the administration has occasionally taken it upon itself to chastise the student editors for criticizing the University. This can best be seen in two specific cases, one concerning a letter to the editor, and the other involving an editorial...
...long as a vocal group of alumni, however, make themselves heard through the Alumni Bulletin and through more effective media of communication, such as money, the University will have a difficult job in carrying out any anti-traditional policy, such as tearing the place down. For that reason, it is desirable and possibly helpful for present undergraduates to express their opinions on the subject...