Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flower Drum Song. Not top-drawer Rodgers & Hammerstein, but even their second and third drawers have a lot to offer...
...Flower Drum Song. Rodgers & Hammerstein have left their genius out of this routine musical, but Pat Suzuki and Miyoshi Umeki are worth the price of omissions...
...made up at Vatican City station. A group of 23 Vatican officials, plus government bigwigs accompanied the Pope's body on its journey. In Venice, the body of St. Pius X, enclosed in a glass coffin, was borne to a navy barge rowed to the rhythm of a drum. Followed by a procession of gondolas, the barge headed up the Grand Canal to St. Mark's, where a choir of 2,000 children and almost everyone in Venice waited...
...Flower Drum Song. Rodgers & Hammerstein's blithe-spirited romp through San Francisco's Chinatown...
...massive climaxes with passages that are almost flip--the sly fillip of the flute at the very end, for instance. The opening is very attractive, with the theme (almost a twelve-tone row) announced softly by the low strings pizzicato to the accompaniment of saucy raps on the snare drum. But in the middle section--a sort of languourous waltz--the sense of direction is lost and the piece begins to maunder. The final movement was transmitted in rather hazy fashion by the unsure playing of the orchestra, but it seemed much the same sort of thing. Mr. Stewart...