Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of hobnobbing with fight managers and lesser figures of the pugilistic trade, Sports Editor Dan Parker of the N.Y. Daily Mirror has developed a fine ear for Manhattan's ringside speech and idiom. This week, in his column, Parker gave a health report on Armand Weill, manager of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, as told by "Al" Weill himself...
...soon the musical extravagances of bop began to wear thin. Some of its innovations, e.g., more advanced harmonies and trickier rhythms, were absorbed into the jazz idiom as a whole. Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land...
...after due reflection: "To find something similar to Edith Piaf's Parisian material but in the American idiom, a song with a story about people." When she finds a song she likes, she works on it like an actor boning up on a script. "A song deals with a person," she tells herself. "I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else." Songstress Sanders also tries for "a sort of sexiness which accepts sex without having to emphasize...
George Barati: Siring Quartet (California Quartet; Contemporary). A fairly brief three-movement work by Hungarian-born Composer Barati, who is also the quartet's cellist. The three movements are consistently thoughtful, occasionally warm, once or twice fiery in a moderately dissonant idiom. Good performance...
Establishment of a new jazz society, whose purpose is "to create an atmosphere here at Harvard that will foster an appreciation of the idiom," was announced last night by its provisional president, Thomas B. Wilson, Jr. '54. The faculty sponsors will be Walter H. Piston '24, professor of Music, and Allen D. Sapp, Jr., head section man in Music...