Word: dixielander
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...Band this year. "Harvard Fair" is what Schickele deadpans as being "a straight, as opposed to a gay, piece." Schickele contends that he "has always written serious music." He describes his style of jazz as being a "down home, post-bop funk that falls somewhere between free from and Dixieland...
...with the accompanying souvenir glass. Perhaps this happened to the sailors, who sat at a table near the stage surrounded on three sides by a senior citizens tour group from Florida. They kept looking at each other, then at their drinks, then back at each other, while a pedestrian Dixieland group on the bandstand honked its way through the St. James Infirmary blues. Finally they got up and left, each carrying three souvenir glasses in individual plastic bags...
...Sunday night." Hayward's boss, Dolores Shea, who with her husband Tom runs O'Shea's (the O got separated from the family two generations back), offered this blessing: "They've done very well. They don't draw teenagers, but they draw everybody else. We've had steel bands, Dixieland, everything, but the big band is neat, especially our big band. Now just listen to that." They were playing Stella by Starlight...
...zealots as well. And they have a point: Washington is high spirited and blithe, by Washington's standards, when its greenswards are green and the vast federal flower patches are blooming. Just a few weeks ago in Rock Creek Park, for instance, the National Park Service had a Dixieland band and a blue-grass group come out and celebrate the fall foliage. The moment spring begins, you may be sure, Washingtonians will turn emphatic about the glorious forsythia, the jonquils and daffodils and, of course, all the perfect cherry blossoms. They go on and on about the dogwoods...
...performances--and Halpern's bewitchery--the overall production suffers from a languor that is too palpable to capture effectively even the extreme decadence of Hitler-ascendant Berlin. The band makes more bearable the probably unavoidable but still awkward pauses between scenes with quite rousing renditions of music hall and dixieland-flavored tunes. And while Kevin Jennings' direction is clearly competant and clear, a freshness and originality is missing. The direction is not highly memorable, visually striking or evocative because, for one thing, Jennings relies too heavily on the stark symbol of the swastika to shock and draw forth...