Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole "dance-play," has hopes of getting such a play produced on Broadway next year. With "actors trained by me," she would try to accomplish a threefold ambition: "To speak as an individual, to portray the spirit of Africa, and to do it through the African dance idiom...
...opera." He is convinced that it won't develop until a lot of traditional "operatic hogwash" goes down the drain. His prediction: American opera will settle in a style "somewhere between Porgy and Bess and South Pacific. Let's face it, the popular song is the American idiom." Last week Rumanian-born Composer Wolfe was illustrating his point in a theater off Broadway with a little production called Mississippi Legend...
...audiences got was a Mississippi Legend that mostly just kept rollin' along, smoothly and inevitably, but with few flash floods of emotion. Well sung by a Village Opera Company cast and chorus (no orchestra), Legend had its chief charm in its authentic blues. It was in the American idiom all right, but the score was all warp and no woof. Wolfe strung his ballads along one after the other, unadorned and undeveloped, with few bars to bind them together...
...Concertino, dedicated to Walter Piston (who supplied the theme of the second movement.) This work, commissioned by Town Hall, has already been played in France and Germany, and last night marked its second local performance. Mr. Sapp, who is now teaching Music 102, uses a jazzy, dissonant idiom which hints at times of Milhaud and Hindemith, but is distinctly his own. Nobody will be whistling any of the tunes, but the work holds together well and indicates real ability. The performance, of course, was authoritative...
...some of its action) were filmed in India, and M-G-M technicians have done an expert job of blending the studio scenes into the location footage. While the screen overflows with exotic local color, the soundtrack matches its extravagance with Kipling's quaint version of the Indian idiom. Even grownups who are dragged off to see Kim are likely to have no regrets...