Word: liebestraum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malone) that lifts his eyes from the scales. He hurries the young lady off to a museum, where he serenades her on Chopin's spinet and Mozart's harpsichord. ("Mozart," he confides, "became a great composer. He was decorated by the Pope.") And then, as he plays Liebestraum ("A dream of love," he sighs in explanation) on Liszt's own instrument, Pianist Warrin proposes. She accepts, but fate comes between them: the pianist begins to go deaf...
...have been disappointed. He is casually spontaneous, whether throwing away an outrageous pun ("I will now play you excerpts. My mother made wonderful excerpts. Fried excerpts, boiled excerpts . . .") or sneering at Franz Liszt's Liebestraum as he skilfully plays it. He seems to ad lib every other line (but does not), appears to enjoy his own performance enormously (and does). One customer, who apparently has almost as good a time with Borge's performance as Borge, has been to see him 54 times. Another man laughed so hard he had a heart attack, was forbidden by his wife...
...professional musical toy or 2) a professional musical instrument? Union banjo and guitar players, who have been complaining of losing jobs to non-union "uke" players, plunked for No. 2. Last week, after pondering the complaints and listening to a demonstration uke performance of Liszt's Liebestraum which struck them as professionally impressive, the executive board of Local 802 made its decision. Henceforth, all practitioners of the uke in 802's jurisdiction who appear commercially on television, radio or other programs will have to hold union cards...
...musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert's Italian Street Song (sung by Jeanette MacDonald); Bluebird of Happiness (sung by Jan Peerce); Jalousie (performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra); Make Believe, from Show Boat (sung by Allan Jones...
Most Bee staffers disagree. Growled one copyreader: "I get my Liebestraum all mixed up with my rape. And on a deadline, it's murder." Five times in the past year, unrelaxed, unidentified staffers have stopped the Muzak. Last week a chilling notice was tacked on the bulletin board: "Anyone turning it [the music] off again will be fired immediately. [Signed] Myron Depew, City Editor." Since newspaper jobs are hard to get, Muzak will now probably play on unmolested...