Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warmth of the human spirit. In an area in Manhattan's West Side slums, a group of public-spirited citizens (president: John D. Rockefeller III) had pulled together the resources of dozens of public and private agencies to plan a center for the performance and instruction of opera, music, dance and repertory theater. The President's car skirted a crowd of 12,000, pulled up behind a huge green-and-white-striped umbrella tent and a blue-draped speakers' platform. Beneath the great tent: the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Bernstein rapped his baton and signaled...
...great Russian dance tradition and 2) the dazzling acrobatic skill and cheerful dedication that somehow bring conviction to even the hoariest ballet plots. What the Russians' training does not give them is new ideas; their great weakness is oldfashioned, unimaginative choreography and a concentration on emotional music, uncomplicated stories and characterizations of line-drawn simplicity...
Taking their inspiration from Edward Steichen's "Family of Man" and from Carl Sandburg's poetry, four attractive young people have produced a program of folk music that is different, refreshing, and exceedingly enjoyable. They sing, play guitars and banjos, pantomine, and experiment with lighting; and last Sunday's Boston audience, while small (only about 100), gave them an enthusiastic response...
...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...
...Fair Lady in KANSAS CITY, Mo., Two for the Seesaw in Los ANGELES and The Music Man in CHICAGO do justice to the Broadway originals...