Word: boleros
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...event of considerable importance to the juke boxes of the U.S. Southwest occurred last week when Decca recorded Ramon Armengod, Mexico's Bing Crosby, singing Amor, Amor, Amor, Mexico's "new song." It is a cancion bolero with a lovely, lazy melody and a fetching Franz Lehar swipe at the end of the middle part, and Senor Armengod has the voice to sing it bravely. But Amor, Amor, Amor is not new. It has been played south of the Bravo (Rio Grande to Yanquis) for several years. It is called new by Mexicans because, with the fierce competition...
...RECORDS: Hazy and Blue,: a nice job on the Templeton tune by Kay Kyser. Song itself sounds like the concert jazz that was the range in the middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite...
Request Programme (Repeated) *"Pomp and Circumstance," March Elgar *"Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waltzes Strauss *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Second Hungarlan Rhapsody Liszt *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *Bolero Ravel *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Soloist: JESUS MARIA SANROMA *The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Encores: *Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin Wagner "Jealousy," Gypsy Tango Gade "Hora Staccato" Dinicu-Heifotz *The Flight of the Bumble Bee Rimsky-Korsakov...
...Marche MilitaireSchubert *Overture to "Edmont" Beethoven *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"Aida" Fantasia Verdi Austrian Peasant Dancers Schonherr *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Bolero Ravel *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *American Patrol Meacham *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Military Polonaise Chopin-Glazounov *Large, from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *Entrance of the Little Fauns Pierne *Waltz of the Flowers, from the "Nutcracker" Suite Tchaikovsky *"The Prince and the Princess," from "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov *Ave Maria Bach-Gounod *Bolero Ravel College Medley by the Regis College Glee Club Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *March, "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar...