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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...
M. Joel Mandelbaum '53 composed the original music score and conducted the student orchestra which provided the musical accompaniment to the movie.
To the rasping accompaniment of a recorded piano, "Miss Ruth" wove her way through some of the Oriental numbers that first made her famous in the U.S. and Europe in 1906-08. In The Incense, she was an Indian woman carrying a tray of smoking incense; Miss Ruth's...