Word: habanera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most imperiously for him who would dare. And if fruit and sugar production fails to fill the craving for the Caribbees, still there is sunshine, and white flannels for the asking, and doubtless castanets and the habanera. Who would quibble when Cuba offers herself to the habitue of Sever...
...loveliness has always been a notable attraction for the truly discerning connoisseur of grand opera, perhaps failed to personify the sudden, mercurial, fate-defeated Carmen. Critics could not forget that she was more Czech than Spanish, that her French was bad, that she was unfaithful to detail, that the "Habanera" should never have been sung from a wheelbarrow nor the "Sequidilla" from the garrison table. They postponed their verdict. But the mass of the audience perceiving these aesthetic errors, clapped and cheered after every act. After the last, they tossed their roses to the stage...
...Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold...
Ramon loved the girl whom his brother Pedro had successfully wooed, and one day while the lilting strains of the Habanera sounded, Ramon stabbed Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young...
This gloomy tale is, of course, made for music, and the gay Habanera mingled fantastically with tones and orchestrations of sombre tragedy...