Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberal rights, and he took every advantage of them. He arranged his Fifth Avenue apartment for the boys, gave each his own room and bath (they slept in the same room at Gloria's), a large playroom, and bikes. He talked of nothing save his boys and his music ("And," says a friend, "he was a bore about both"). He meticulously arranged their diets (insisting on orange juice freshly squeezed at the table just before drinking, no earlier), evolved a system of having the boys dine at his place every other night; on alternate evenings he sat with...
Nobody in his time understood the English eardrum better than George Frederick Handel, and nobody played on it with more conspicuous success. It was the wonder of his career that this adopted son who spoke a heavily Teutonic-flavored English and shaped his musical style after the Italians managed to leave his bulky imprint on England as no composer before or since. When he was buried with regal pomp in Westminster Abbey in 1759, 3,000 people attended the ceremony, and the press reminded its readers that Handel was to music what "Mr. Pope was in poetry." Last week, with...
Porgy and Bess is only a moderate and intermittent success as a musical show; as an attempt to produce a great work of cinematic art, it is a sometimes ponderous failure. The fault is not entirely Producer Goldwyn's. The original Broadway musical ('TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), a good try at the great American folk opera, is troubled with an awkward, ill-paced plot-the last act falls flat because all the best tunes are used up in the early part of the show. The libretto, by Charleston-born Novelist DuBose Heyward, is full of the sort...
High above the Delaware River shore, spotlights glowed dimly through the green-and-orange striped canvas tent. Inside, the audience of 1,500 foot-tapped to some sassy songs. Bells Are Ringing jangled tunefully onstage, and for the Lambertville, N.J. Music Circus, the box office kept ringing up boffo business...
...Success was a long time coming. Jonah was born roughly 50 years ago in Louisville. The son of a fireman, he had little interest in music until one day "I was standing on the corner, and a kid band was coming along, and I saw them trombones out in front. They were the shiniest, prettiest things I ever did see." Jonah's arms were too short to play the trombone, but he took up the trumpet, eventually graduated to the small Louisville combos-Tinsley's Royal Aces, Perdue's Pirates, etc. After that he "gigged around" with...