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Later, Borodin wrote a funeral march and a mazurka around the tune, which he called the Coteletten Polka* and proudly showed the pieces to his musical friends. Rimsky-Korsakov promptly added several variations; other composer friends chipped in too, and before long there were 16 paraphrases. All were written for piano duet, the lower part for a skilled player, the upper for two fingers. In 1879, when the collection was published, Liszt got a copy, and added a paraphrase...
...covers everything from slave-tended tobacco growing in the colonial South to New England whaling and Detroit assembly lines. Volume II focuses on manners and styles of life: steamboating on the Mississippi, immigrant ways in the big city slums, the exciting new society diversions of the waltz and polka...
Stravinsky conducts the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in Fireworks, Ode, Norwegian Moods and Circus Polka, plays piano for Violinist Joseph Szigeti in Russian Maiden's Song, leads the Woody Herman Orchestra in Ebony Concerto. With the exception of Fireworks, Composer Stravinsky is represented by inconsequential pieces, but the disk (2 sides LP) will be a valuable, though perhaps dusty, collector's item. Recording: fair...
...Korean national police band played its own version of The Beer Barrel Polka, while near by another band added to the din by banging vigorously on tattered drums and rusty cymbals. The Andong middle-school chorus, girls dressed up in white smocks and blue pleated skirts, boys in little white caps, blue shirts and white trousers, sang the U.S. and South Korean national anthems. Then, amid cheers, Colonel Tandy cut the ribbon, formally opened Andong's new bridge...
...Author Fannie Hurst, Actress Barbara Britton, Singer Connie Moore, a barber, a general, and a wounded Korean veteran on a stretcher), and tosses off gaily professional asides about baseball that may confuse her housewife listeners. The " mood of something for everyone is heightened by two minutes of The Pocahontas Polka followed by two minutes of Ibsen's A Doll's House. As a commercial bonus, the first show offered three ways of achieving poise: 1) avoid nervous giggles, 2) stand and walk as if you're proud of yourself, 3) use Odorono...