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There's a Cat in the Tuba, which won the $750 citywide song contest, had just what it takes to make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some wartime flops, De Barro and Ribeiro wrote Cat in lilting, one-step marcha time-quicker even than the sprightly samba beat...
...vocal gymnastics spoke most strongly for the Princeton Club. Barely any "falling apart" or less of unison accompanied the tricky arpeggios in Beethoven's "Oh, What Delight," the Prisoners Chorus from "Fidelio," "Maiden Fair" suffered from the basses and "My Lovely Celia" from the inarticulate delivery of the lyric...
...lost weekends and the psychiatric ward. Baudelaire's own lost weekend lasted more than 20 years, but instead of cracking up, he never gave way finally to despair. In fact, he became its almost contemptuous familiar. The random reflections of his Intimate Journals reveal more than the great lyric poet of Fleurs du Mal (1857); they show the nature of the man who somehow dodged the inexorable shooting-down of the fugitive. The Intimate Journals, self-pitying and frequently obscure as they are, are nonetheless a document of man's search for his soul...
...More I Do" recording, under a Republic label with vocal by ex-Waring man Walter Scheff, features a lyric starting: "The more I do, the more I want to do; so I do nothing, do nothing...
...theme of Allegro is a simple, minor-key faith shared by many Americans: a kind of puzzled sympathy for the puzzled ("Poor Joe! The older you grow, the harder it is to know . . ."). Oscar is a sentimentalist who is repelled by the materialistic din of big city living. One lyric in Allegro says bitterly...