Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's art season is to U. S. art what the Broadway season is to the U. S. theatre. It started off with a mild pop last week when the renovated Whitney Museum, after a four-month delay, threw open its doors at last, revealing a fountain filled with goldfish in the lobby, four new galleries filled mostly with familiar U. S. moderns from the Museum's permanent collection...
Last week observers had difficulty recognizing the Queen Mary, though Britain's big luxury liner lay in plain sight next the Normandie at her dock in Manhattan's North River. Her superstructure, more spotlessly white than ever, seemed to be suspended over a smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy...
Harlem's hotspots last week had 45 knowing visitors. The 45 were delegates to the American Musicological Society's first international congress, climaxing a strenuous six-day program in Manhattan. Such eminent musicologists as Yugoslavia's Dragan Plamenac, Denmark's Knud Jeppesen, Venezuela's Juan Lecuna, watched the Big Apple, the Lindy Hop, the Shag, drank what there was to drink. At the Savoy Ballroom, Bandmaster Erskine Hawkins swung Bach, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Minor in their honor. The bolder musicologists ventured gingerly out on the floor, soon got limber...
...theme from music of the two Americas to Venetian and Dalmatian songs of the Renaissance. One program resurrected unpublished music by Handel, none of it performed since the composer's day. Enjoyed most by delegates and outsiders alike was a concert of medieval music at The Cloisters, Manhattan's museum-piece museum of Gothic art, where bull-necked French Tenor Yves Tinayre and a girls' choir sang motets, trouvere songs, Gregorian chants...
...Musicologist Carleton Smith, radio commentator at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium concerts...