Word: kaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philadelphia-born Arranger Kay offered some samples. Balanchine decided the first one sounded too much like Aaron Copland...
...wanted Copland, I would have asked him to write it"). The second was too complicated. But the third, consisting of simple tunes with skeletal, guitarlike accompaniments, rang the bell. Composer Kay scoured source books for western tunes, came up with twelve of them, from Old Taylor, Rye Whisky and Lolly-Too-Dum to Red River Valley (which he used as a unifying theme). Balanchine took the piano sketch to his rehearsal hall and roughed in dance movements with his company. When Balanchine & Co. got back from a successful West Coast tour last month, the score was ready. Last week...
...morning last summer, George Balanchine, the New York City Ballet's brilliant choreographer, called up an arranger named Hershy Kay. Balanchine had just returned from Wyoming and was delighted by the lovely scenery, the pretty songs, the appealing cowboy costumes. Balanchine wanted Kay to write the music for a new western ballet. "Just write something." said Balanchine airily, "and we'll work from there...
...Music of Duke Ellington (Columbia LP). Reissues of twelve matchless Ellington originals, ranging in style from The Mooche (1928) to Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (1947). Highlights: Kay Davis' wordless, sensuous crooning in the Creole Love Call, the elegant interplay of Johnny Hodges' alto and Harry Carney's bouncing baritone in I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart. Baby Cox's unforgettable vocal growl in The Mooche...
Thus the high priest of surrealism, French Poet Andre Breton, once tried to describe the atmosphere of some of the strangest paintings ever created. Last week the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hart ford, Conn, was staging a retrospective show of paintings by Yves Tanguy and his wife, Kay Sage...