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...save for one or two like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous new song: Cole Porter's torchy-chornya You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (best sung by the Riobamba's fresh-voiced Frank Sinatra...
...away the finest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation, and one of the three or four finest in the world. Last week, as the Metropolitan's annual Wagner cycle came to an end, Traubel could claim an added distinction: no other U.S. soprano since Nordica had sung the three-volume role of Brünnhilde (Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) right through in successive performances...
Songs of Free Men (Paul Robeson, baritone; Columbia; 8 sides). An anthology of leftist folk and propaganda songs is sung (in Russian, Spanish and English) as only Robeson can sing them. Included is the stirring Song of the Plains, popularized on previous records by the Red Army Chorus of the U.S.S.R., two rough-hewn numbers from Dzerzhinsky's Soviet opera Quiet Flows the Don, scheduled for its Manhattan première this summer...
...opening Vaughan Williams work was slightly shaky, but from there on in, it was easy coasting. The Harvard group sang the Allegri "Miscrere" as well as it has ever sung, and the belles from Radcliffe hit the Bartok choruses on all four. Above and beyond this, the evening was a series of triumphs for Irving C. Fine '37. It was he who with few rehearsals, whipped the Navy group into an organization which with a bit more practice and polish will become a well rounded, smoothly functioning unit. It was his work, the Incidental Music to Alice in Wonderland, with...
...that same debut will be Fine's "Incidental Music to Alice in Wonderland" and Mabel Dentels' "Dum Dianao Vitrea" which have never been sung before in any concert. Likewise the two choruses from "King David" by Houeggar have seen little previous performance...