Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ During its 30 years on radio and television, Voice of Firestone won just about every merit award but the one that counts with network moneymen: a high rating. Notified by ABC that prime Monday-night time would no longer be available next season, and with no adequate substitute time...
Britain's angry young Playwright John (Look Back in Anger) Osborne had some thing to be angry about last week. His first musical, The World of Paul Slickey, a savage jab at London's Fleet Street society gossipists, was a critical fiasco.
Musical history has not been kind to the memories of Johann Kittl, Anton Titl and Rudolf Bibl, three 19th century composers whose reputations were as truncated as their names. Nevertheless, K.T.&B. have an outspoken champion- Boston Composer-Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky. Along with some 10,000 other menand women-about...
Died. Reginald Arkell, 76, British novelist (Old Herbaceous), poet, editor and author of numerous musical revues including 1066 and All That; in Cricklade, England. Lampooning the U.S. Prohibition era, Arkell once presented the Statue of Liberty on the London stage with a bottle of whisky in her right hand, fended...
Mozart's glorious Piano Concerto in G, K. 453, featured Edgar Murray '60 as the soloist. Though he phrased with style and intelligence, his lacklustre tone failed to bring to life many of his good musical ideas. In the third movement, however, his performance brightened considerably and he handled the...