Word: lullabye
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A Harvard graduate, Composer Anderson started out with more classical ambitions, built his reputation as a "Tin Pan longhair" only after a nine-year stretch writing arrangements for the Boston Pops Orchestra. He turns out about three of his capsule compositions each year, numbers such as Blue Tango, Trumpeter'...
The sounds that reverberated through Moscow's Teatr Estrady last week seemed strangely out of place in the drab, disciplined Soviet capital: the salivating slur of a trombone, the mellow wail of a muted trumpet, the throaty murmur of a saxophone and the staccato thunder of drums. U.S. tourists...
Auburn hair swirled into a massive cone above her head, her strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 180 Ibs.) figure dominating the stage, she swept through Beatrice's gothic intricacies with the ease of a nanny crooning a lullaby. Her voice was round, smooth and flexible, negotiating the score'...
Songs and Fun with the Baby Sitters (Vanguard). This winning semipro quartet gives one the sensation of visiting with rather than listening to. Giving off an air of artless improvisation, they intertwine pretend games, traditional ballads and "activity songs." Low on actorish gloss, the Baby Sitters are as soft sell...
England's Harold Craxton, on the other hand, recalls triumphing over a singer who insisted on going up to a top C at the end of the familiar folk song Christ Child Lullaby. When the singer asked Craxton why he was looking at her "so curiously," he replied: "I...