Word: allegros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Included in this collection are songs from "Oklahoma!" "South Pacific," "Carmen Jones," and the unfortunate "Allegro." There are also songs from "Show Boat" and some written for movies, as well as unpublished lyrics. All of them show the same twinkling golly-durn humor and disarming command of cliches. The few unfamiliar lyrics in the book cannot compare with those of familiar melody, which proves the power of interdependence. One outstanding thing about most Rodgers and Hammerstein songs is that on first hearing they sound familiar, as if they had been in the air or in your own head for some...
...Bartok: Allegro Barbara, Rumanian Dance, Suite Op. 14, etc. (Bela Bartok, pianist; Bartok Recording Studio; 2 sides LP). A collector's item-and a must for pianists who want to hear how Bartok played his own music. Originally recorded in Europe more than 15 years ago, the numbers have been well re-recorded by Bartok's son Peter...
...Violinist Kreisler could smile at the memory of a gentle hoax: for years he programmed his own compositions-the Praeludium and Allegro, Menuet, Concerto in C Major-as "transcriptions" of the works of old masters. He thought it "tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs...