Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waited--through thrice-weekly seminars in nurtured alfalfa and required junior tutorial on irrigation and canning preserves. And all the while there had been the dream of someday coming East, of walking up Brattle Street in a pair of Bermuda shorts, of bookshops and bohemians and coffee-house jazz. Today it had all come true...
...about four villagers who steal the moon from neighbors, carry it to their graves, finally lose it to St. Peter, who hangs it in the sky to light "the men who still wait in the little garden of the earth." The fragmented, intermittently lyrical score contains snatches of gutbucket jazz and such unorthodox sonorities as a chorus singing through megaphones, a shrieking oscillator, an accompaniment of organ, harmonium, piano, celesta and wind machine. This occasionally blurred performance has its strongly moving moments, but many listeners may feel that Composer Orff's moon has set before it has fairly risen...
Cool Depths. Choreographer Robbins brought four ballets to Spoleto: Todd Bolender's Games, plus his own New York Export-Opus Jazz, Afternoon of a Faun and The Concert. In this quartet, Jazz-which Robbins regards as "my most important ballet in a long time"-was the only wholly new work. Set to a jazz-flavored score by Manhattan-born Composer Robert Prince, it offered a back-alley view of the "postures, attitudes and rhythms" of the teen-agers who run and "rumble" on U.S. city streets...
...Though its natural range is one shrill octave, the seasoned player can squeeze out almost another octave. Like the New Orleans Negroes who once fused Dixieland from a great many different sources (including spirituals, marches, French and Spanish dance melodies), the penny whistlers began by imitating bagpipers and American jazz, with the occasional addition of native rhythms. To foreign ears the simple 4/4 tempo of pennywhistle jazz may seem repetitious and childlike. To Africans living in crowded city locations, pennywhistle jazz evokes nostalgic country memories: the swaying of women at tribal weddings, the sound of ancient work songs, the wail...
...Anybody Can Play, NBC challenges quizlings to Pick a Winner or try The Big Game, CBS dares viewers either to Sing Along or Keep Talking! Away from the panels and the quiz masters, there is little in prospect to excite viewers. ABC offers Bobby Troup's Stars of Jazz as relief from the heat. CBS will try its courtroom show, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME. May 19) as an hour evening program, in addition to Verdict's weekday afternoon half-hour run. NBC is scheduling two hour-long live shows, a private-eye staple called The Investigator...