Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarlet gown, she glided through an adagio with her big partner, Vladimiroff, to music by Glazunov. Again with Vladimiroff, she did her famed Caucasian Dances, a slinky lady then, wild and jimp with shiny eyes, while a little drum tapped like a drunken heartbeat. In a dance called the "Polka Vendredi," with the flavor of a dirty joke of the '70's, she became the sort of person that modern Chief Justices and aging college presidents were warned against in their salad days-a saucy, swaggering, heliotroped trollop. Young blades regarding her shivered slightly with a fear that...
There will be half-way gentlemen among that famous gallery of censors, neither affronted or approving, who will bethink them sadly of the beauty of "lost causes"--the minuet, quadrille, polka, and other dances once softened by a delicate formalism and ritualistic sobriety now in disuse. Even an early nineteenth century dance manual showed sings of a growing decadence, the passing of the classical restraint and solemnity of the dance of puritanical epochs. Couples were admonished above all things, thus implying that it was not the custom, "to wear a pleasing countenance; for dancing is certainly supposed...
...truth is, he does not dwarf the rest of the performance at all. Every act is a masterpiece of its kind. Everyone has heard of the Wooden Soldiers, and of Katinka and her inexorable polka, but in vigor of execution, in recognition of artistic requirements and in sheer merit, these two most popular scenes scarcely outdo the others. The music throughout is so far above the level of the American vaudeville that one hesitates to apply that classification to the Russian counterpart. The voices are really musical,-except, of course, when they are intentionally harsh for obvious effects...
...Allegro non troppo. II. Allegretto. III. Andante sostenuto. IV. Andante espressivo. Allegro. 4. Soli for Pianoforte. a. Melody in E Rachmaninoff b. Impromptu in F-sharp Major Chopin c. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca Liszt d. Jardins sous la Pluie Debussy Mr. F. W. Ramseyer '26. 5. Romanza Dvorak 6. Polka Dvorak 7. Orientale Cui Solo Cello--Mr. E. T. Payson '26. 8. Cortege from the "Queen of Sheba" Gounod
...Zimbalist's music while somewhat disappointing was on the whole adequate. It is melodious but without pronounced individuality save in such special numbers as the song "A Cup of Tea", in the Chinese style, the jazz tune "Drop Me a Line", a Spanish song, the Viennese, polka, the dance "a la Minute" where their versatility and rythmic vitality served to redeem the music as a whole...