Word: hoedown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVELYN LEAR AND THOMAS STEWART: ROMANTISCHE DUETTE (Deutsche Grammophon). This recording unites the husband-and-wife team in a sedate but romantic hoedown. Evelyn Lear, most noted for her flamboyant version of Berg's violently atonal Lulu, becomes a demure turtledove in Schumann's Fair Little Flower. Thomas Stewart, memorable for his dour and doomed Wotan, pours out Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with as much authority as any cotton-pick-in' baritone in the business...
Picasso? As any viewer would easily detect, the painter seems as out of place in TV's barrage of hard news as a hippie at a hoedown. And that is a pity, for TV too often slights its coverage of the arts. Aware of that, NBC has countered with a one-woman cultural explosion named Aline Saarinen, a 53-year-old grandmother who is TV's best specialist on the subject...
...introduced to the American public such virtuosos as a man who hammered out Yankee Doodle by beating his head with a mallet while producing different notes by opening and closing his mouth; another who rendered Swanee River by slapping together two bananas; a little old lady who played hoedown fiddle, slipped out her false teeth, and frantically clacked them up and down in time with the music; and, in 1935, a fat twelve-year-old named Maria Kalogeropoulos...
...like a Tennessee mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention of the frug or Watusi, the prince winces a bit: "I do not do these dances, and it is not for me to say too hastily whether they are good...
November is Country Music Month. Not exactly heart-pounding news-except in Nashville, Tenn., where it is cause for an annual whoop-'n'-holler hoedown called the Country Music Festival. Hundreds of back-hill singers and strummers, sporting mail-order toupees and $300 hand-tooled boots, turn out for the event, and aspiring singers corner recording producers in elevators for impromptu auditions...