Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free time in the day was spent swimming or rowing on a nearby lake, playing ping-pong, or dozing in an easy chair. Most students devoted the evenings to chess or checkers, study in a luxuriously-furnished library, or listening to concerts of classical music in the music room...
Magdalena (music by Heitor Villa-Lobos; book by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan & Homer Curran; produced by Mr. Curran) is Broadway's first encounter with Brazil's most famous composer...
...this is too much for Composer Villa-Lobos, or probably anyone else, to triumph over. It is yet a tribute to him that Magdalena is often something to be enjoyed rather than endured. Some of his music is pleasantly (and all the more pleasantly for being well sung) in the florid, full-bosomed tradition of operetta; while the best of it has real color and wit, is truly folkish or stylish. On the good side, too, are some of Jack Cole's slithery dances, and the genuine if old-fashioned showmanship of Singing Comedienne Irra Petina (Song of Norway...
...weeks ago Chávez, who is head of the government's Institute of Fine Arts and the nearest thing to a government music boss, started rehearsals for a special "little" opera season. His foes said he was doing it to boost his own ego; he was trying to undermine the regular opera season ; whatever he did would be bad. Then, suddenly, Chávez' orchestra struck...
That Lady in Ermine. The late Ernst Lubitsch's easygoing Graustarkian spoof, with Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Technicolor and music (TIME...