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Preens & Pip-Squeaks. As is customary, lighting technicians and bodice padders mumbled gratitude to their angel mothers and all the wonderful, wonderful people in the cast. As usual, the songs were mediocre and sung badly. And as usual, the M.C.-Bob Hope this time brisk, professional and apparently a little bored- was unable to tell enough jokes to bring to life the stupefying parade of pretty, smiling people introducing other pretty, smiling people...
...conclusion, Seeger charged that: "The House Committee wanted to pillory me because it didn't like some few of the thousands of places I have sung. Now it so happens that the specific song whose title was mentioned in this trial (Wasn't That a Time) was not permitted to be sung at the time. It is one of my favorites. The song is apropos to this trial, and I wondered if I might have your permission to sing it here before I close...
...Scoring a triumph in his first television opera-and in a role that he had infrequently sung before-was about par for Tozzi. He made his Met debut only six years ago; since then, he has thrown his big bronze voice into 27 different Met roles-including King Phillip in Don Carlo, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Padre Guardiano in La Forza del Destino-and in the process has become one of the world's great bassos...
...always "policemen," and Negro cops, who are always "patrolmen." In the Memphis Commercial Appeal if a minister is white, he is "the Rev.," if Negro he is simply "Rev." The Denver Post is explicit on Roman Catholic ritual: "Mass is celebrated, said or read. High Mass is sung, never held. The Rosary is recited or said, never read." But the Miami News takes the easy way out: "Write it 'the mass (or rosary) will be at 7 p.m.' rather than having it sung, read, held, recited, given or said...
...other half of the program, conducted by Elliott Forbes. Three motets by Victoria, Beveridge, and Randall Thompson displayed control and lightness, the Thompson work being of peculiarly obvious but quite appealing construction. Two 17th century "ayres" by John Hilton and two 16th century chansons by Claude Le Jeune were sung delicately, but the chorus's diction was not always good. In a more lyrical vein, two songs of Brahms and one of Schumann were wonderfully rich and fluid, the latter ending softly with well-controlled dynamics...