Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vocal opposition also quashed a second half of the main motion-to-abolish, which would have provided for a substitute class function of an unspecified nature...
Trial at Rouen is one of Composer Dello Joio's finest works, displaying his gift for vocal melody. The total effect is of opera in the Italian tradition, sturdier and more severe than the music of Menotti, but more full-bodied than the works of the extreme modernists...
...Hypochondria. Because of the delicacy of his vocal organ, the tenor is forced to baby his voice. Many carry this to extremes, even denying themselves sex for 48 hours before a performance because it may coarsen their tone. (One contemporary tenor has refined this after learning by a process of trial and error that his voice is at its peak exactly three days after sexual intercourse.) Despite all his precautions, the tenor tends to feel himself hoarse as a wolf at curtain time, and often decides he has a cold. If he can be forced onto the stage, his natural...
Brooklyn-born Richard Tucker, 41, is gifted with vocal equipment capable of a lyrical, sensuous legato and a ringing, exciting fortissimo. Beyond that he gives credit for his eminence to 1) the late Tenor Paul Althouse for teaching him, 2) former Met Manager (and former tenor) Edward Johnson for bringing him into the Met, and 3) Rudolf Bing for elevating him in roles and income. "I was making $6,000 as a cantor when Mr. Johnson offered me $95 a week to join the Met," says Tucker. "When Mr. Bing came here, I was singing for $350 a week. When...
Pressure on Your Preacher. Few trumpets indeed were sounding in the Southern churches last week. Most ministers were like Layman Bryant-troubled. But they found other things to talk about than the problem that plagued Bryant. Most of the vocal few were vocal on the side of the lily-white banner of segregation; Citizens' Council rallies could usually count on some Protestant clergyman to bless their gatherings. The Rev. Earl Anderson, for instance, 63-year-old pastor of Dallas' Munger Place Baptist Church, insisted that: "Now is the time for Citizens' Councils to put pressure on your...