Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such an operetta was The Dollar Princess (1907) which, sensitive to the march of history, turned its back on gypsies and archdukes and instead examined the American millionaire. Today, few people remember it except music publishers, sentimentalists, and the Russians, who last week began adapting The Dollar Princess for their own devices...
Setting this speech to music might have distracted attention from the message, so the Russians wisely did not try. Kazimir and Ludviga return home to the People's Democracy, leaving the Dollar Princess to smother in her gold. Kuder, for his part, decides to buy up a few votes and run for the Senate on the Democratic ticket. "Broadway," he remarks, "will be happy though amazed...
...glum-looking music student from Evanston, Ill. boarded a boat for Paris. She had a round-trip ticket, but was in no hurry to use the return half. Last week Gertrude O'Brady was back in Manhattan, calling up old friends with the invitation: "Come and see me, I've become a painter!" One day in Paris she had had a date with an art critic, and as a joke he had bought her some paints. "I was an absolute backwoods baby," says O'Brady. "I told him I couldn't think what to paint...
Last week, music-lovers drifted leisurely through the dark green marble-pillared rotunda toward the glass-ceilinged East Garden Court for the fifth and final concert of Dick Bales's annual American Music Festival...
Some of the music by Americans, like Frederick Woltmann's Songs from a Chinese Lute and Bainbridge Crist's Oriental Nocturne, sounded fine but had little to do with America. But Robert Ward's Gershwinesque, midnight-blue Night Music and Ray Green's jiggy, jazzy, folk-flavored Three Pieces for a Concert were true Americana. Most impressive was Bales's own Episodes from a Lincoln Ballet, a dramatic descriptive work which carried Lincoln through his "Youth and Dreams," to "The Presidency" and "Fame Everlasting...