Word: musical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important than anything happening at the moment. The only other thing that is nice to remember is that we went to the last of the Beethoven concerts and came home drunk with happiness. No more concerts now. Besides, dammit sir, you can't go listening to German music these days-switch on the Gilbert & Sullivan...
...Radio City Music Hall, where nightly, daily danced the robotesque Rockettes on the best-trained row of legs in the world...
...Armistice Day medley will be the featured music while the band forms the letters HARLOW to the tune of "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and a cannon shape from which it will shoot groups of players to spell ARMY...
...imitate Duke Ellington. Several years ago, before Barnet bad formed his present band, I heard him play, and even then he was trying to imitate the Duke's ideas. He told me then that he felt that Ellington was the greatest of the living jazz leaders, and that his music was extraordinary by anybody's standards...
...intriguing mixture of dadaistic dances and Jerome Kern melodies form the gossamer-like substance of "Very Warm For May," the new Kern-Hammerstein musical which began its Boston run last night. The result is most pleasing, for just as the incongruity of surrealistic ballet and fine music strike a humorous note, so does this musical comedy give the impression that it is laughing at itself and having a delightful time all the while. A fresh and often amusing plot jogs in and out and around a score of singing and dancing sequences formidably staged by Vincente Minnelli, reaching a high...