Word: boleros
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...feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace of a cobra. Bhupesh Guha became a hunter with tasseled spear, stalking the tiger, wary, fleet, then charging in for the kill. His frenzied ritual dance around the slain animal, joined by three women, was a bolero of stabbing rhythm...
...from being merely a stunt, an Adler-Draper recital is genuinely expressive and musicianly. The pair perform solos in turn-Adler with a movement from a Bach concerto, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel's Bolero, etc., and Draper with taps to a Scarlatti pastorale, a Bach fantasia, The Blue Danube waltz. When they get going together, their act is a production...
...Tijuana's rococo Foreign Club, favorite relaxing spot for cinema bigwigs, saw nothing babyish about Rita, either. They applauded Eduardo and his new partner into an 18-month stay. The Cansinos' routine of 26 numbers consisted of modernized versions of the old Spanish classical dances (the Bolero, the Spanish tango, etc.). Between shows Eduardo locked his buxom young daughter in the dressing room. Tijuana was that kind of a place. After the last show of the day, they went back into the U.S. to join the family at Chula Vista...
Larry Adler buys standard $4.50 harmonicas by the hundreds, blows their brass "reeds" out of tune in no time. He broke a tooth in tootling Maurice Ravel's Bolero for a Columbia record which became a best seller in Europe and the U.S. Composer Ravel, who objected violently to the way some conductors (notably Maestro Toscanini) played his piece, took Larry Adler's drastic treatment of it meekly, asked him simply: "Why don't you play...
...itself on being the Thomas Cook & Sons of popular music, takes especial pride in its Mexican list, and well it might. Mexican popular music is like Mexico itself: vivid, varied, unpredictable, exciting. It comes in many forms. There are many kinds of canciones (songs): fox (fox trot), ranchero (cowboy), bolero (slow rumba), corrido (fast one-step), etc. There are also polkas and a number of varieties of locality songs and dances. Their general characteristic is ingeniously broken time...