Word: folkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent from the look of him. Handsome? Hardly. His ears are too big, and his nose and chin much too long. The explanation came, as it always does, when he began to play. Leaning to his left and glancing toward the orchestra, he filled the hall with the simple, folkish melody that opens the concerto. That is one aspect of the Horowitz magic: rich, full tone even in moments of quiet. The rest of his sorcery was soon at work. The concerto's immense hurdles (lightning-fast chord sequences, densely complicated ornaments) were leaped smoothly, and the occasional moments...
...Town Tonight." There is also, for the piccolo-playing Dorothy, a punningly titled "Play Us a Polka, Dot," and, farther on, an example of the old unaccompanied barbershop quartet (actually a quintet here), "Pretty Jennie Lee." The opening scene, in proprietor Schmidt's beer-garden, provides the endearing folkish song "'Twas Not So Long Ago," which points to Schmidt's immigrant origins by being sung first in German by him and then in English by his daughter Addie; and this song easily survives its three reprises in later scenes...
...with my feet in Dixie/ And my head in the cool blue North," sings Jesse Winchester on the title cut of his fifth album. Although he is now a Canadian citizen, having gone north to avoid the draft a decade ago, Winchester has never forsaken his Tennessee roots. His folkish simplicity and Southern warmth go down like good country cider-easily, and with an occasional gentle kick...
...Penny, under the Blue Parrot on Mt. Auburn St., has live music too, but it tends toward the folkish and is always full of rather bizarre people who are looking for someone to pick up. Not cheap, but they have a better selection of wines than most places around--although if you're setting yourself up as a wine connoisseur, you should probably go to the Wine Bar in the garage instead--but prepared to spend...
...fable, that is a little too fabulous. Shakespeare was able to get away with the man-woman mistaken identity gambit because he imbued it with humor, poetry and a sly fencing of the sexes. But that is not the case here, where the prevailing mood is one of folkish piety...