Word: lune
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freddie the Freeloader, and the goon, Clem Kiddlehopper, were pretty much up to par on the first program, some of his straight monologue material was merely second-rate. Skelton's first guest was the sugar-coated Pianist Liberace, who 1) mooned interminably through Debussy's Clair de Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with Skelton in a dance number, and 3) played straight man when Skelton came to call as a treblesome piano tuner. Item: Liberace, in his famed toothpasty smile, showed portraits of his four greatest inspirations - "Bach, Beethoven, Paderewski...
...brother. Then he began his musical efforts by raising his piano bench higher because "This is a pretty high-class number." Pretty high-class for Liberace were something called Cornish Rhapsody (originally a British film score), emasculated versions of popular Chopin pieces, and Debussy's Clair de Lune, accompanied by five Madison Square Garden spotlights making like the moon. Hardly anybody had time to decide whether he was playing all the notes: everything he did (including a soft-shoe dance and a pair of vocal numbers) was over before it could begin to pall...
...during the evening that he plays serious music, Borge keeps his audience alert by mixing a strain from "Farmer in the Dell" into the classic. For most of the evening, however, he is introducing his few selections: "I must confess I know only two numbers: one is 'Clair de Lune.' The other isn't." And then he laughs, a sound like seals barking...
...music was exceedingly well played on opening night considering the lack of rehearsals, but that is only part of the Pops. It isn't every day that an orchestral version of Claire de Lune is accompanied by the popping of champague corks. Each night during the season all or part of the floor in Symphony Hall is sold to one or more groups...