Word: harps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Know That You Know (Joe Marsala; Decca). The most straightforward hot clarinetist in the business and his clean little band do the honors to one of Vincent Youmans' great foxtrots. Mrs. Marsala gets off for a nice hot harp chorus...
Groucho on the trio's retirement: "Our stuff is stale. So are we. . . . The fake mustache, the dumb harp player, and the little Italian who chased the ladies were funny at first. But it became harder with each picture to top the one before. To get out of the groove we have to get out of the movies...
...Cart Driver's Song" for soprano and piano, sung by Elsic Houston with plenty of barbaric yawp. The song is impressive even if you don't care for barbaric yawp; if you do, it's doubly powerful. The last selection in the album, "Quatuor" for flute, harp, celesta, and women's voices, is something of a disappointment. Written during a period of strong Debussy influence, it is overly imitative, and except for the delightful last movement lacks the imagination and freshness of the other pieces...
...Newsome-Lefler history continues to harp on the conservatives of the Democratic Party down to and including the administration of Governor Hoey and plainly intimates that both Governor Ehringhaus and Governor Hoey owed their election to election frauds. Such an implication . . . is entirely out of place in a proposed history for the fifth grade...
...used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects, changes in mood and tempo, all contributing to a decidedly comic effect. It, and the Handel, Bach and Grandjany concertos; the organ, harp, string orchestra, and tympani, all point to one of the best concerts of the season...