Word: hardart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into over time!"). His great contribution to musicology is the "discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless amused concertgoers and record buyers know, P.D.Q. is the perpetrator of such neglected works as Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, and the oratorio The Seasonings ("Bide thy thyme, now thy subscription's through...
...Madison Avenue speculation is that Ally will drop the ever familiar "Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat" theme. Some of his cur rent campaigns have clearly been influenced by soft-selling Doyle Dane Bernbach, which developed Avis' underdog* theme. Among Ally clients are Horn & Hardart ("no frills"), Tensor Lamp ("little me") and Volvo ("small but tough"). Ally, however, insists that he is an adherent of no particular school: "I intend to anticipate the next cycle and be a forerunner as Doyle Dane has been most recently...
...audience in Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall was select - largely musicians, musicologists, music teachers and students. They were gathered to hear the neglected music of P.D.Q. Bach, the least-known offspring of Johann Sebastian. The opening Concerto for Horn and Hardart got off to a lively start when blaaaaaaat! It was Soloist Peter Schickele blowing on a duck caller attached to the "concert grand Hard-art," a four-wheel, coin-operated contraption that looked like a junkyard reject. As the music went sailing off in directions unknown, Schickele merrily blasted away on a kazoo, ocarina, bike horns, buzzers and doorbells...
...ballet dancers are getting only $50 a week in the U.S., plus rooms and one free meal a day at the Hotel Governor Clinton. They cannot afford to eat in the better restaurants, and they apparently prefer not to eat in people's restaurants, such as Horn & Hardart's. Most buy groceries and eat cold suppers in their hotel rooms after the evening performance...
...press conference, Mrs. Hahn gave a different version of the story. She had written to This Is Your Life suggesting they do a show about her 18-year-old daughter who had been nearly blind as a young child, had gained normal sight and become a nascent actress (Horn & Hardart Children's Hour, small Broadway parts). This Is Your Life turned out to be more interested in a portrait of the self-sacrificing mother and her husband, said Mrs. Hahn. As for that episode in magistrate's court, she had taken her daughter there on a rabbi...