Word: accompanimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Manhattan's Blue Angel last week, the house lights dimmed and the M.C. announced the newest thing in the nightclub belt: a theoretical physicist who turns out tunes on the side. Tom Lehrer, tall, lean, 25, strode purposefully to the piano, peered into the crowd through horn-rimmed...
With the exception of Glenn Burris, the Caliph, the other performers match Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fan court's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wesely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than in Central...
Two Philippine folksongs are prize compositions in a contest sponsored by the Glee Club among native composers. They are saturated with harmonies which must have originated in a Manila barbershop. There are some interesting effects when the lower voices chant monosyllables against a tenor melody, but the overall result often...
The more taxing C-minor Fantasia did not have this unity of conception. In its opening pages, as in the Menuetto of the E-flat Sonata (R. 282), Mr. Lewin played so slowly that one lost the momentum of individual figurations, not to speak of whole phrases. One might also...
With the exception of Glenn Burris, the Caliph, the other performers match Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fancourt's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wisely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than In Central Asia...