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Leonard Bernstein, '39, director of the H.S.U. production "The Cradle Will Rock," has again created an original score which will be sung by a picked chorus from the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. The ancient Greek comedy which tickled the ribs of toga-clad Athenians centuries ago, has been rewritten by Nichols, Abrahams, and Bernstein...
...Sprightlier female vocalizing may be heard on Que Puntadas (What a Flirt), sung by Lucha Reyes, a personality girl who works for Victor...
...Traditional Mexican farewell song is the lament La Borrachita (The Little Drunkard), sung by Cuatitas Herrera on Decca...
...William Shakespeare's birthday (April 23), the BBC broadcast to Germany records of swing versions of his lyrics, It Was a Lover and His Lass, Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, 0 Mistress Mine, sung by Marion Mann accompanied by Bob Crosby's Bob Cats. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph: "The seemliness of presenting such versions of Shakespeare from his own land and on his own day to a people who have never concealed their respect for his genius is to be raised in Parliament...
...Jubilee Singers, now 100% male, have never sung hotcha, keep their spirituals pure and dignified. But last week in Fisk Memorial Chapel, to the dismay of diehards, Negroes stomped, slapped their thighs, plunk-a-plunked banjos and guitars, sang blues and "sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could...