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...Bernard Rogers' The Nightingale (on a double bill with Miracle) retells the famous Andersen fairy tale of the Chinese emperor who prefers a mechanical nightingale to the real thing. This is Rogers' fourth opera (his second was The Warrior, which was sung at the Met in 1947). At 62, he shows some pleasant signs of mellowness, but The Nightingale's chirping was too insistently Chinese and too disorganized for comfort...
...Class Ode, written to the tune of "Fair Harvard," is the class hymn. It will be sung by the Class Chorister after being road at the Class Day exercises...
...autobiography of Marjorie Lawrence, the Metropolitan Opera star who was stricken with the disease in 1941 but came back in 1943 to sing Venus from a sitting position, Interrupted Melody is a poliopera in color. For three-fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from Carmen, La Bohème, II Trovatore and Samson et Dalila. In the final fourth, with the loyal support of her husband (Glenn Ford), she grimly fights off her affliction. Somehow, the film trails vaguely away...
...This take-off on "The Beggar's Opera" employs such epic techniques as a blackout before songs, then a spot-light on one character who sings about the action and its implications. If the actor doesn't clarify the situation, there are placards on stage explaining what is being sung...
Compline, the last hour of the Divine Office, is sung at 7 p.m. and closes with a candlelight procession in the chapel. Real recreation comes now, from 7:30 to 8:30. The sisters usually spend it in the large, attractive community room, chatting. At 9 o'clock all sisters pause wherever they are to recite to themselves the De Profundis for the dead. Curfew rings at 9:30, but not all the sisters go right to bed. Mother Mary Columba's light burns late into the night...