Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Visiting Firemen, Jeepers Creepers, Lazy Bones and Skylark. With half the U.S. mumbling his 42nd-Street plain chant in its sleep, Mercer moved on to Hollywood. Blues in the Night, written for a Warner Brothers musical, sold over a million copies. By last week another Mercer opus. Strip Polka (for which the versatile Johnny had written the tune as well as the words), was No. 2 on Variety's list of bestsellers. Its homely refrain...
Malcolm H. Holmes, director of the Harvard, Radcliffe and Wellesley orchestras, will then conduct the Pierian Sodality of 1808 in five orchestral selections: Sinfonia, "To Thee Alone be Glory," by Bach; Symphony No. 39 in E Flat, Minuet: Allegretto, by Mozart; Polka from "The Bartered Bride," by Smetana; Polka from "The Golden Age," by Shostakovitch; and March from "Peter and the Wolf," by Prokoflef...
...results, four works for symphony orchestra, were complete this week: Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, a mixture of simplicity, tenderness and nobility; Kern's Portrait for Orchestra (Mark Twain), stringing out typically Kern melodies, portraying Mark Twain's humor in an impudent polka, his "gorgeous pilot house" in a broad andante cantabile; Thomson's brassy Mayor LaGuardia Waltzes and Canons for Dorothy Thompson...
...conga a one-two-three-kick rhythm, basis of the samba is a springy, knee-action rise & fall-a motion heretofore found mainly on ski slopes. The samba's one ironclad rule: a knee-bend on every beat. A ballroomful of bobbing samba dancers suggests a gay polka, but the bobs in the samba are downs & ups, not ups & downs. The weight remains on one foot at a time for two full counts and dips. But quick waltzlike turns are also permissible and, as in other dances, partners may improvise fancy variations...
...Polka-dotting this area is a formidable system of prepared defenses. There are no Russian lines, as such, before Moscow. The fortifications are in depth, and they run from the present line of action right to the city. They consist of everything from tiny land mines to monstrous forts three stories deep...