Word: sung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another novelty on the program, and one which proved so successful that an encore was demanded by the audience, was a group of four French chansons of the fifteenth century sung by Dorothy Barnhouse with instrumental accompaniment. Miss Barnhouse is one of those exceptional vocalists who possesses at once an effortless style of delivery, a vibrant voice, and an unfailingly sensitive feeling for nuances. The songs, especially those of Dufay and Binchois, showed melodic writing of great beauty and poignancy...
TUESDAY, JUNE 17--Class Day exercises beginning at 3 p.m. in Sever Quadrangle. There will be orations--humorous and otherwise--, the Class song will be sung, the Class poem will be read, the Class colors will be presented. The procession will form at Widener at 2:30, seniors wearing cap and gown. Guests will be admitted without tickets...
Besides the singing, sociality, and occasional dashes of sex involved in Dunce activities, (they have sung at Smith, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Radcliffe this year), the Dunces have two stated purposes: to sing comparatively unknown songs other groups don't perform, and to sing tunes arranged especially for them...
...that the House needed a "choir", sedate souls might have smiled in expectation of a Palestrina revival. But when this self-same "choir" tossed a bombshell into a Dunster Senior Dinner with a ditty called "Balls, Balls, Balls," sedateness vanished forever. The original manuscript of "Balls," never again sung in public is a Dunce keepsake...
...instance, found Vivaldi's music often "lively as gunfire," but hardly theatrical. Holofernes got his head lopped off in a few bars of refined fiddling-where Verdi would have unleashed all the brass and tympani in the pit. And Judith was always genteel, a decapitator in old lace. Sung in Latin, the vocal lines were always elegant, sometimes floridly difficult...