Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years he worked hard at piano, musical theory and composition, but an ear infection made him too deaf to go on with it. At 17, he went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies. In 1937 Mérida got tired of pure abstractionism, and began...
...powerful Transport Workers Union, and Norman Corwin, radio writer. Also present to provide the glamor expected on such an occasion were Sono Osato, Luba Malina, Margo and the Broadway stars. (Frank "Harvey" Fay, a Roman Catholic, later went roaring to Actors' Equity against participation of stage folk in "a Red meeting" where the Roman Catholic Church was denounced...
Everett Hoagland, the young American who leads the band at Giro's, saw he dance at a Veracruz fiesta. He orchestrated the simple folk melody and noted down its dance steps. Back at Giro's he began to alternate it with his regular fare of rumbas, sambas and congas. Within six weeks Mexico City's socialites, free-spending European expatriates and Amerlean travelers were calling for nothing but La Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance...
Died. Béla BartÓk, 64, prolific Hungarian composer of piquant, sometimes cacophonous orchestral and chamber music; longtime student of Magyar and Yugoslav folk music; after long illness; in Manhattan, his home since 1940. A radical modernist, BartÓk in 1938 wrote Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin especially for his friend Joseph Szigeti's violin and Benny Goodman's rippling clarinet...
Carib Song (book & lyrics by William Archibald; music by Baldwin Bergersen; produced by George Stanton) is an all-Negro folk-fandango laid in the West Indies. A "musical play," Carib Song unfolds a triangle story so lethargic and sedate that it virtually libels the reputation of the tropics. The love story, moreover, is pretty much buried in native dialect (e.g., "I ain't know") and local customs, ranging from God-fearing church-going to god-fearing voodoo. All this is now & again picturesque but never dramatic. Carib Song owes its best moments to the dancing of Katherine Dunham...