Word: hoedown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm-hearted about a cold world, so high-minded about its lowlifes as to emerge mere hootch-coated butterscotch. Its bawdyhouse seems about as sinful as Saturday night in a Y.W.C.A.; when its mugs and molls carouse, what is meant to be lowdown seems more like a hoedown. And it is not just the madam who has a heart of gold; with all of its characters' hearts, Pipe Dream shows a positive Midas touch...
...device for converting color into coin. Furthermore, there is a musical objection to the scheme. Bizet wrote French romantic music that, as many critics feel, is hardly even suitable to its original Spanish subject. With back-country U.S. Negroes, it goes about as well as pink champagne at a hoedown. On top of this, Oscar Hammerstein II dipped his big toe in the Mississippi mud and wrote some lyrics that should be thrown back to the catfish. Fortunately, he also supplied a book that is considerably better than the original libretto, with a shift of the plot to Jacksonville...
Mountain Dance & Folk Festival (Sat. 2:30 p.m., ABC). Twenty-fourth annual hoedown, from Asheville...
Ever since big, likable Erle Cocke Jr. was elected national commander of the American Legion, his home town had been making plans to throw Erle the biggest hoedown in history. Last week, enough brass bands were on hand to blast the hickory nuts off every scaly bark tree in Terrell County...
...Symphony Orchestra, Don Gillis conducting; Texas Christian University, 6 sides). Composer-NBC Producer Gillis composed this, his "Symphony No. 7," in 1948 for the diamond jubilee of his alma mater. The pastoral passages have the feel of the prairie-of space and sagebrush, and there is some low-down hoedown too. The performance is good, the recording, made by London FFRR, excellent...