Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chopin for Reach. Now thoroughly recovered from his temporary paralysis, he has gone a long way toward outdoing Tatum. One of his particular fancies is to blend in phrases from a completely different piece-such as snatches of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the middle of My Funny Valentine. "I like to venture out," he says. "Like with Funny Valentine, it came to me that there was a similarity between those chords and Beethoven's. I ventured out. It worked...
Until a close-cropped nurse and a middle-aged baritone premiered a new musical a few blocks up the street, Kiss Me, Kate was Broadway's brightest show in late '48. But while Kate continued to prosper, the critics were no longer so enchanted with its blend of Elizabethan and backstage comedy. The show, they carped, had none of Rogers and Hammerstein's poignancy, bitter-sweet romance, or delicacy...
...President must be just the right blend: a pleasing, unblemished personality who will keep a cool head and a ready smile in France's sea of troubles. He must, of course, be dedicated to the republican principle, in good health, intelligent and tactful, not too young or too old, with an exemplary family. "He must be a good enough shot to avoid any diplomatic incidents when he takes visiting royalty out hunting," one wag specified, "and he shouldn't be named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive...
...expert who shares Agnes de Mille's conviction that there is a sturdy potential audience for such a blend of dancing and humor is sage Sol Hurok. Impresario Hurok has put up the money to get the show on the road, has booked it into 107 cities in the next six months for what should be the most ambitious tour of its kind in entertainment history...
...Orleans (Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine; Columbia LP). Two favorite singers blend their talents for a reminiscence of New Orleans. The Stafford-Laine city is a place of chimney sweeps (Raminay!), gastronomy (Jambalaya), and nostalgia (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, etc.). Some of the backgrounds give a jazzlike lift to the proceedings...