Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latest and most vocal are Representative Paul A. McCarthy and Court Clerk Thomas H. Dorgan who, not content with presenting a bill to outlaw the Communist party in Massachusetts, went gunning on April 2 for "reducators." They produced a bill to "instruct the presidents of the several colleges and schools in the Commonwealth to expel communists or communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs.' It threatens delinquent colleges with the loss of their charters...
...Igor Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," written to the Latin verse of Jean Cocteau. The Glee Club made it appropriately the most impressive event of the evening. "Oedipus" is dominated by strong dramatic tension created by the jarring chords of the piano, the roll of the kettledrums, and the vocal crescendos of the chorus...
...sentimental." It was a trouper's speech, and Flagstad is a trouper. She has been singing opera now for 37 years, and the theater is in her blood and background. Her father worked in Oslo's Central Theater as a violinist and conductor, her mother as a vocal coach. The first score that flaxen-haired Kirsten ever "yelled out" as a child was Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. She learned Lohengrin before...
...that "my voice was very small, but it carried." For many years she sang light lyric roles (Mimi, Rosalinda). Her voice first began to grow into its present astonishing hall-filling power when she started to study Isolde, at 37. She found that after only three weeks of the vocal exertion Wagner demands, "my back became two inches broader. I did not gain any weight, but I couldn't get into my old dresses...
...girl, France's Queen Marie Antoinette took music lessons from Composer Christoph Gluck, may have tried her hand at composing herself. One little number, Chanson de Marie Antoinette, based on a melody supposedly by the Queen, has long been part of the standard vocal repertory. Last week, revarnished and renamed My Heart Cries for You, the Chanson had become 1951's first big hit. Its sprightly tempo had been slowed by Conductor-Composer Percy Faith to a lazy waltz, and its elegant tale of pastoral courtship changed to a monotonous lover's lament.* Result: the song...