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...aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky. In last week's wedding publicity she was headlined as a singer. She sang briefly in 1939 with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, has yet to make the Metropolitan, where Whitney is a board director. Lately she has sung in churches, occasionally in concert and on the radio with the Madrigal Singers...
Since the beginning of the war, Britain's soldiers have doggedly caroled two onetime U.S. favorites, the Beer Barrel Polka and South of the Border. But lately a British song from World War I, Bless 'Em All, has been dusted off, is sung with a will by Britons of all classes. In waltz time, it goes...
Western scales and harmonies do not seem to alarm the Chinese now. Their most popular song is March of the Volunteers, whose spare, vigorous melody was lately sung to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek by a group of children who had wandered 10,000 miles seeking refuge...
Pepusch-Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Glyndebourne Opera Company, with small orchestra conducted by Michael Mudie; Victor; 12 sides; $6.50). Poet John Gay's gusty ballad opera, with tunes of the day (1728) arranged by Dr. Johann Christoph Pepusch, here gets a nearly complete recording. Well sung but mumbly, and Victor has neglected to supply printed lyrics...
Last week a small orchestra sat on the Town Hall stage, with most of the principal saints in evening dress, the chorus in monkish robes. After seven years Virgil Thomson's tunes still sounded engaging, well-made, occasionally trivial. The most charming aria was still that sung by St. Ignatius: "Pigeons on the grass alas. Short longer grass short longer shorter yellow grass," etc. But Four Saints in Three Acts still owed a lot to its original Cellophane...