Word: lyricists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nrtya (a dance play with integrated songs and music). The ancient Greeks had a name for it, too-but Broadway is still trying to find out how to do it. Oklahoma! was a step in the right direction. Last week Experimental Theatre came closer yet. Composer Jerome Moross and Lyricist John Latouche (Ballad for Americans) had cooked up three song-&-dance plays called Ballet Ballads for Broadway's connoisseurs and critics to sample. The critics found the dance-music-drama experiments "no end diverting and pretty . . . both rare and welcome...
...boisterous fellow students, evicted from their rooming house, pick up the tables and chairs and march out in a noisy procession (cumparsa). That gave him a title. He quickly knocked out a doleful melody and a set of lyrics that were soon replaced by those of a rival lyricist...
Died. John Keirn Brennan, 74, hit lyricist (Empty Saddles, Let the Rest of the World Go By, A Little Bit of Heaven), charter member of ASCAP; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
...Here's The Pitch," the Rasty Pudding's latest musical, will be aired over station WCOP tonight at 7:30 o'clock by Theodore Allegretti '47, the star of the play, and William M. Seudder '48, its lyricist. The half hour broadcast will be a resume of the show, which had its first performance Wednesday night. The hundredth annual Pudding offering was produced at a cost of $25,000, and like its predecessor, will take to the read after concluding its Cambridge performances...
...night two months ago a 29-year-old lyricist named Bob Hilliard asked Carl Sigman, who sets his words to music, how he would like to write a song about civilization. "Just like that," said Sigman, "it killed...