Word: 1920s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Founded in 1946 at the Hasty Pudding Club, the group celebrated its 50th anniversary last spring. The group performs classic ballads and light jazz from the 1920s to 1950s, according to former member Jordan A. Cooper...
That decade was one of firsts; the 1920s was a decade of bests, as Europe produced films and filmmakers that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic...
...issue. For decades the city has managed to generate hopeful visions of bodies reaching out to one another across racial lines, from the stories of Brer Rabbit to the 1989 movie Driving Miss Daisy. The Commission on Inter-racial Cooperation was set up here in the 1920s--but at almost exactly the same time, the Ku Klux Klan was reorganized at nearby Stone Mountain...
...full post-Armstrong treatment; simply put, he makes it swing. Even the famous opening--the skyward clarinet glissando--is given a new twist. Roberts instead starts the piece with what he calls "a series of improvised statements," the first being the forlorn sound of a single banjo. Gershwin's 1920s piano rolls have set a high standard for pianists to follow, but Roberts' performance on this CD adds some graceful verve. His fleet-fingered improvisations--constant, probing, thoughtful--provide color to an already multihued work without seeming merely ornamental. After hearing Roberts, we sense that there are many more shades...
...movies' most dazzling smile shines today, in a set of 10 features (all of Fairbanks' silent films from the 1920s) and two beguiling early featurettes that Kino video is releasing this week. The films, digitally remastered from archive prints, look beautiful in their pearly black-and-white tones--as does The Black Pirate (1926) in its surprisingly sumptuous two-strip Technicolor. The videos offer a reminder that Fairbanks was not just a star of young Hollywood; he was among its most ambitious producers. And he made some marvelous entertainments. The Mollycoddle, The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers...