Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regarding the denunciation of German musicians Furtwängler and Gieseking by Messrs. Rubinstein, Heifetz, et al. [TIME, Jan. 17], it should be apparent that if these men are prevented from performing in this country, the far greater loss will be ours, not theirs; the cause of music in America will suffer more than the personal fortunes of these men . . . It is curious to observe with what seeming fervor some people insist on tilting with ideological windmills long after the cause in question is supposed to have been...
...Falt-boot, Night and Day on the beach at Newport, and It's DeLovely on the high seas,. His songs have felt the influence of his wanderings. What Is This Thing Called Love? was suggested by a native dance in Morocco's Marrakech, and he developed the music of Begin the Beguine from a war-dance chant he heard in Kalabahi, a small island in the Netherlands Indies (he had already got the title idea from a Martinique cafe in Paris...
...Love (music & lyrics by Allan Roberts & Lester Lee; sketch editor, Max Shulman; produced by Sammy Lambert & Anthony B. Farrell) adds another to this season's rash of revues. It is one of the rashest-expensive, elaborate, and about as intimate as army maneuvers. This is not a wise setup for Grace & Paul Hartman (Angel in the Wings). At their best as nightclub zanies, the Hartmans are dwarfed by so large a landscape-and rather flattened out by their lines...
...circulation Freeman, 1921-24), an essayist of distinction, an authority on Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...
...Suzanne La Follette) knew where he lived. It was an office joke that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with the names of such people as New York's Bishop Manning and Chicago's Dr. Bernard...