Word: minueting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this rarely heard sonata bursts with haunting effects. It contains whole sections where adjacent notes sound sweet as a simple triad, others where the same kind of crowded combinations become strident and even brutal, and yet the whole mysterious piece works out as logically as a Haydn minuet. It is expertly played by the concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony and Pianist Simms...
...President also sat down at Margaret's piano, wondering if it was in tune (it did not sound as if it was), and played the waltz he had taught her when she was first learning to play the piano. Then, as an encore, he played Paderewski's Minuet...
...Sullivan, but the children are never bored. They always like noise, and besides the songs provide a chance for dancing and kicking, an essential in children's productions. Beverly Butte's choreography is a good blend of the clumsiness which delights children and the bland musical step. A modern minuet performed by Peter Parker and Earle Edgerton, the king's courtiers, is particularly successful in its slapstick...
...tradition of the acknowledged masterpieces to be familiar and enjoyable ground for the G. & S. lover. In most of their operettas, for instance, there is one piece which hearkens back effectively to the music of England's "Golden Age" of Purcell and Byrd. In Ida, the lovely duet-minuet sung by Melissa and Lady Blanche becomes, not so much from the quality of the singing as from the grace and obvious enjoyment of the singers, one of the high spots of the performance. It should be noted, however, that G. & S. did not achieve here that perfect union of talents...
...Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here on the gift instrument, with the nation's most loose-lipped trumpeter, Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, bleating what passed for the south half of a duet going north. Then Truman tinkled through a performance of Paderewski's Minuet in G, later lauded by a Chicago musicritic as "recognizable." But the worst of his week was yet to come...