Word: rustication
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Mozart: A Musical Joke (Members of the NBC Symphony conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor). A rustic but often appealing suite composed in Mozart's most sophisticated period, designed to illustrate some of the musical pitfalls he so consistently avoided. Many of them are too subtle for untrained ears, but when two French horns sail into a strange key and bump unceremoniously, it is quite clear their music has been incorrectly transposed. Just what pitfalls Mozart had in mind for the brief but cacophonous end is not clear-perhaps all of them blended into...
...coach"). The music began with portentous thunder, answered by a piping call on the piccolo clarinet and a burbling of other woodwinds. Twice the movement plodded ponderously up harmonic mountains -and, triumphantly, gave glimpses of wide vistas on the other side. The second movement went along at a dashing, rustic gallop, while the third strutted with the bravado of a teen-ager unaware of being observed. Some of the loveliest music came when the high clarinet played a melting melody while the bass clarinet throbbed, followed by a slam-bang finale...
...silk, which invariably seems to have a fetish effect upon Chad. Ultimately, Chad gets Rose, but only after she 1) lives with Eustace Hawke, a sensational poet with more than an overtone of Rupert Brooke about him, and 2) goes through a loveless marriage with Billy Pascoe, a lowly rustic who becomes England's greatest atomic scientist...
...Major Bowes contest and landed a 39-week contract as lead singer in a quartet called "The Hoboken Four." Six months later, Sinatra was back in Hoboken, airing his talents on 18 local sustaining programs every week for only 70? a week carfare. He also sang in the Rustic Cabin, a roadhouse not far from Hoboken, where he waited table too, and "practically swept the floor," for $15 a week. And there it was, in 1939, that Frank Sinatra got his break...
...these goings-on were naturally not calculated to please Mrs. Nancy Sinatra, the pretty girl from Hoboken whom Frank had married back in the Rustic Cabin days, and with whom he has three children-Nancy, 15, Frankie, 11, and Christina, 7. But somehow the Sinatras managed to keep the home fires sputtering along-until Frank one day met up with Ava Gardner...