Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snakes began to weave back & forth as if they were "dancing" to the music. (Many herpetologists believe that cobras actually pay little attention to the pipes but sway in an effort to follow the body movements of the charmer. Carefully keeping them swaying with a motion of his hand. Sir Miles's charmer stopped playing, inched forward, and with his other hand firmly grasped one reptile behind the neck, lifted it into a bag. He then repeated the performance on the remaining eight...
...which was obviously genuine. These and similar exploits would by themselves be enough to make Dark Rapture, except for its title, a model for pictures of its type. In addition, Explorer Denis pickled his adventures in some of the most beautiful landscape photography ever recorded on film, used native music as the basis for a brilliant accompanying score and furnished an announcer, John Martin, who gives a running account of the proceedings without sounding like a hysteric with crumbs in his throat. The net result is an entertainment which not only makes the Dark Continent cease to seem dull...
...popularity are their cheapness, varied programs, unconventional atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur musical criticism, behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began in 1895, weed-whiskered old Sir Henry Joseph...
Last week, as the 44th season of the Promenade Concerts closed, musical Britain turned out in a body to do Sir Henry honor. The occasion: a Jubilee Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, celebrating Sir Henry's 50th anniversary as a conductor. Special trains ran from all parts of England. From Cardiff, Wales, in the midst of England's "distressed areas," came 500 Promgoers. The musicians who played in the concert all gave their services free. They were: London's four leading symphonic orchestras (BBC's, the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Queen...
Negro composers of jazz music, like W. C. Handy and Duke Ellington, have long taken top honors in their field, have long been street-corner names in the U. S. Practically unknown to the U. S. man in the street is the music of their highbrow Negro brethren. Known or not, however, much of it is equal to the best that is being written by U. S. white composers. Most prominent among such Negro composers are Los Angeles' sober-minded William Grant Still (Afro-American Symphony), Tuskegee, Ala.'s William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony), and Greensboro...