Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crossover is nothing new. The Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler recorded Irving Berlin tunes in 1927, around the same time that a Tin Pan Alley refugee named George Gershwin sent wigs flying with such concert scores as An American in Paris. What has changed is that today's listeners, raised in an era of shrinking arts education, are showing less interest in the classical standards. Meanwhile, younger classical performers, themselves suckled on pop, want to play it, not only to make big bucks but also because they like it. When Jean-Yves Thibaudet, famous for his interpretations of Ravel and Rachmaninoff...
...self-respecting individual with large quantities of disposable income would have opted for the big kahuna. A $250,000 donation purchased a full day of fun at the most entertaining presidential residence in the free world. Guests were permitted to swim in the pool, play tennis, use the bowling alley, barbecue on the lawn, relax in the Oval Office, even enjoy "Independence Day" in the White House movie theater...
...took the subway downtown recently to the great lofts of New York City's Silicon Alley to make a condolence call. The infant Stim, a Website that was born here in May amid a tide of ain't-the-Net-great hype, had just succumbed, carried off by a corrective wave of antihype. I figured I'd pay my respects to the survivors...
DIED. IRVING CAESAR, 101, Tin Pan Alley lyricist whose words to Tea for Two, Swanee and many other popular tunes have become a treasured part of the musical lexicon; in New York City...
...Everyone Says I Love You on just that simple level. But we've left out the song-and-dance routine he stages in a hospital corridor. And the novelty number in the funeral parlor. And the fact that the streets through which his people hoof and warble Tin Pan Alley chestnuts are not glamourized back-lot representations of New York City but the real, gritty thing. You can't see the dog poop, but you know it's there...