Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week Miss Stein, a gypsy-faced, beauty whose father works for Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., music publishers, was meeting the family...
...types to buy? Columbia's Long Playing 33⅓, s whose microgrooves can hold a whole symphony on two sides, have an advantage in convenience over Victor's small 453 for long classical selections. Also, Columbia's seven-inchers are quite as good for popular music as RCA's seven-inchers, though there are as yet few automatic record changers on the market which will take the Columbia product...
With Folkways Library albums come booklets describing the music and its native performance (e.g., the music-dramas of Java and Bali last all night). The booklets are written by anthropologists and musicologists, edited by Folklorist Harold Courlander, who also decides what selections go into the albums. Says he: "The more you hear of this stuff, the more you get to feel that all music is one. I like to think of it as a spectrum. As you go round the world, one music blends into the next . . . and before you know it you're back where you started, without...
...preceding four: Haitian, Palestinian, Sioux and Navajo, and Equatorial African music...
Miss Liberty (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by the Messrs. Berlin & Sherwood and Moss Hart) was Broadway's most ballyhooed hot-weather opening since Composer Berlin's bang-up This Is the Army in 1942. This is not the army. This is not even a very exciting summer event. Miss Liberty has much that is sound Broadway about it, but little of Berlin at his best, and nothing of Sherwood...