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...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...
Supercritical listeners noted imperfections in the reading of the New World Symphony, Antonin Dvorak's tribute to America. Some of the hastily rehearsed musicians were playing unfamiliar instruments furnished by the U.S. Army Special Services Division. But the Manila Symphony gave the people a promise that night - as well as a concert. As a Dutch officer, a former Amsterdam flutist, put it : "All that is beautiful and good will come back in our lives...
...Dvorak: In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting; Victor; 4 sides). A charming bit of nostalgic Czech musical landscape painting. Performance and recording: good...
...record-buying public about to go on a shopping spree, Koussevitzky & Co. were hard at work on a brand-new version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Keeping pace, the Philadelphia Orchestra was waxing Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Seventh and Dvorak's New World symphonies...
...hundred times more likely that further classicists will prefer to make use of the authentic racial blues or jazz to achieve a nationalistic American music, just as Dvorak and Gershwin have in the past. Yes, swing is typical of a part of America--the part that is commercial and superficial, the part that is cafe society. By its very nature a compromise to public taste, it never reaches to the roots of American society, as do jazz and ragtime, since the general public always prefers to gloss over its roots...