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...small, dark, shiny-haired Cole Albert Porter shares top rank for musicomedy tunes with Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers. Behind Porter lie 17 Broadway shows, including such hits as Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Leave It to Me, Du Barry Was a Lady, Panama Hattie...
...because her Argentine father (Adolphe Menjou) insists that she wed before her younger sisters. Fred Astaire, a momentarily unemployed Yankee hoofer, gets mixed up in it and, against Father's wishes, walks off with both a job and Rita. These complications are set to smooth music by Jerome Kern, which is served up, with whipped cream, by Xavier Cugat. Hoofer Astaire sings two tunes aptly enough to raise one of Bing Crosby's sleepy eyebrows, conducts Miss Hayworth through a lush nocturnal duet...
Three composers went to work on a job usually reserved for painters. Aaron Copland dug into a Modern Library version of Abraham Lincoln's life and letters, and tried to write down his impressions in music. Jerome Kern thumbed through his Mark Twain first editions and manuscripts in his Beverly Hills library. Virgil Thomson spent two hours in Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's City Hall office in Manhattan, watched and jotted down music while the Mayor received visitors. He also spent a morning in Pundit Dorothy Thompson's library while she read and, after her fashion, meditated...
...results, four works for symphony orchestra, were complete this week: Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, a mixture of simplicity, tenderness and nobility; Kern's Portrait for Orchestra (Mark Twain), stringing out typically Kern melodies, portraying Mark Twain's humor in an impudent polka, his "gorgeous pilot house" in a broad andante cantabile; Thomson's brassy Mayor LaGuardia Waltzes and Canons for Dorothy Thompson...
...four pieces exist because of an idea of rotund-faced, baldish Conductor Andre Kostelanetz. As he explains it, "I want people to get the message of what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing...