Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngsters in the family of doctorates include the doctorate of Music (Mus. D.), first established in 1936, and the Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.), given initially in 1936, to Alumni Bulletin writer David McCord. Thus, the spectrum of the honorary degree has expanded so that it includes nearly every conceivable area of accomplishment...
...Gagaku, a magnificent mixture of myth and musical drama fostered for more than 1,000 years at the Japanese imperial court and now seen for the first time in the U.S. See Music...
...most pampered trades in the U.S.-the disk jockeys-had come to town 2,500 strong, and Big Daddy, in the shape of U.S. record companies, was there to take care of them. Officially, the jocks were attending the Second International Radio Programing Seminar and Pop Music Disk Jockey Convention. Actually, the convention was attending them...
Gypsy (book by Arthur Laurents; music by Jule Styne; direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins) opened to breathless rave reviews. Burbled the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Best damn musical I've seen in years." Said Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "Most satisfactory musical of the season." The critical fan-farenade for what is, at best, a so-so show would be a puzzler if the answer was not blazoned on the marquee. The answer: Ethel Merman. They all love Ethel, but the love is sorely tested in her latest role as the most monstrous stage mother ever...
...Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment...