Word: album
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three members of this delightful family get into the movies, and each one on his own becomes a star. The rest of the film is composed of snitches and snatches from the family album of box-office hits-including some black & white satires of silent films in which Anne Baxter plays a frizzed girl of the '20s with a highly energetic twittering of legs and lashes...
...small new recording company in Manhattan is dedicated to that proposition. Last week, the Ethnic Folkways Library issued its fifth album, Music of Indonesia ($7.33)*. Ten more albums will be released in the fall...
...Indonesia album is an aural education in itself. There is a Javanese war dance-written on the seven-tone pelok octave and played on bronze percussion instruments-which has the simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its grief through a long series of delicate ornamentations. An ancient song of the Batak hill people, accompanied by a wooden xylophone and split cymbal, is strikingly like the melancholy music of Provencal shepherds...
Shostakovich: Trio in E Minor (Dmitri Shostakovich, piano; David Oistrakh, violin; Milos Sadlo, cello; Mercury, 6 sides). Recorded at the Prague Music Festival three years ago, this album is more notable for its musicians than for its sometimes gay, sometimes depressing music. Recording: good...
...crust of fear and suspicion softened; tight, drawn faces began to relax. Smiling repatriates in new grey clothes crowded around local exhibits in the prefectural exhibition building. One happy man saw his child's drawing on display. Another found his family's picture in a large album and burst into tears. Said one wide-eyed, thin-faced soldier: "They never told us it would be like this...