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Short and thick-bodied, the boys bounce in front of the mike on the toes of their elevator shoes. They open with a half-sung patter about how hard they have worked on the act and how glad they are to be there. Then they charge down among the first few tables and shake hands. Phillip recalls that when they were children on their father's ranch at Elko, Nev., "there wasn't much to do of a night except sit on the front porch and harmonize." They do, uncertainly, in husky voices that resemble each other...
...arrive at a Judy Garland concert, if one is not a believer, in a state of considerable nausea. The listener knows more than he cares to know about Judy's perpetual troubles-with studios, husbands, nightclub owners, food and the British press. He knows also that Judy has sung Over the Rainbow over and over since she was 17, and that she will sing it again, sure as there is ooze in Oz. Worst of all, there will be the Garland believers who clap wildly and weep like new widows at anything Judy does onstage...
...which will soon be increased to an hour-Trans World has called on an American couple of Russian Orthodox origin, Nicholas and Rose Leonovich, who live in Morocco. Their typical program begins with folk music, gradually changing to church music-instrumental at first, then sung-followed by a Christian message...
Most of the robbers, he eventually decided, live in the U.S. In 1935 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art organized a major exhibition of work by Le Corbusier, and he came across the Atlantic to see it. From the early days when he had sung the praises of American engineers and envied American skyscrapers. New York had been "the fantastic city, the temple of the New World." The disillusion was total. He took one look at the crowded canyons and announced: "Your skyscrapers are too small!" The East and Hudson rivers were hidden; the mighty Atlantic was lost. Instead...
...chorus's light, luminous sonority, when it sang Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah, almost seemed to dim the lights, as is the tradition when the text is sung in Holy Week Matins. Nonetheless, its complex fabric was not very apparent. In Schutz' 84th Psalm it displayed excellent control of its vigor and contrasts. The Choral Society contributed six delightfully cool and sweet songs by Schumann, the chorus maintaining an airy tone and a group of soloists spun an intricate, but occasionally ill-balanced, texture. Three choruses of Haydn ended the concert on a tender, almost sentimental note. They were, indeed...