Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago Musical America offered a $3,000 prize for the best symphonic work to be composed by an American. The judges were Conductors Walter Damrosch, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz, Frederick Stock, Serge Koussevitzky, and they chose unanimously from 92 scores an "epic rhapsody" called America by Ernest Block...
It is the fashion nowadays for pretty musical comedy stars to step overnight into grand opera. Mary Lewis made it. So did Grace Moore. But the feat was never attempted by a cinemactress until last week when honors were awarded to Hope Hampton for her début as Manon...
All well-informed on musical matters know him as a musician of outstanding merit whose littlest interpretations are fraught with beauty. So it was last week that Philadelphia greeted him cordially, even as he stood on the throne of so great a god as Leopold Stokowski, away now on his...
Clever at pictorial arrangements of Holly wood extras dressed as musical comedy gypsies, Director Edwin Carewe has not managed to make exciting the routine masochism of his heroine.
An American arrives in Paris-presumably Gershwin himself, since he was there recently on the proceeds from his musical comedy tunes.* He leaves his hotel on a sunny spring morning, starts gaily down the Champs Elysees to the first walking theme. Taxis stop him first. Their horns amuse him, so...