Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week New York Star Columnist Max Lerner took a wincing look at the good fortune that radio's cornucopia had showered on the family of Edward Easton, an unemployed jewelry salesman of Attleboro, Mass. Mrs. Easton had correctly named a tune on ABC's Stop the Music. Wrote Lerner...
...line with the motif of the play--"Congreve, modern style"--the couples are forming the 18th century gavotte pattern which immediately turns into a hash-up of the Charleston, shag genre. The music for the gavotte ties in with the musical scheme of the play, changing from the traditional patterns to 20th century harmonies and dissonance...
...Musical backdrop, suggesting the satiric parallel between 1700 and 1948, was composed especially for the production by Nicholas Van Slyck 2G, director of the Harvard Chamber Music orchestra. Slyck, a student of Walter Piston, worked 14 hours a day for two weeks turning out the complete musical score which he terms "a blend of 18th century patterns with modern harmonies...
...newcomer to musical composition, Slyck has had his works performed by the Boston Civil Symphony, by his own Chamber Music Orchestra, and at Tanglewood last summer...
Miss Sweeney has spent two summers working and singing at Tanglewood, the Borkshire music festival...