Word: savoyism
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...constructed afterwards. The serene opening fills out into a vigorous and full-voiced movement. Mixing folk elements with the counterpoint studiously learned at the Leipzig Conservatory, Sullivan blends them with the brilliant orchestration technique that was praised in his earliest works and became such a trademark of the great Savoy operettas. The movement is all the more remarkable in view of the composer's age, twenty-four years at the time of its composition...
...like way, the incidental music excerpts from The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice provide a form commensurate with Sullivan's gifts. All the devices that came to be standard in the Savoy orchestrations are here: the long solo horn calls as bridges the violins doubling waltz themes in octaves and the woodwind chordal sections, to name a very few. From the first bassoon solo in The Merchant, the sound is lively and attractive. Sometimes the geography can be confusing (a Viennese waltz set in Venice is hard to fathom), but the spirit is blithe. Sullivan was clearly best...
...wines. Demand continues to grow in the U.S., Asia and Europe. Not only are Americans drinking more table wine than ever* but Japan has had a stunning impact on the market. Tokyo importers sometimes outbid rivals by as much as 50%. In London, Sir Hugh Wonter, chairman of the Savoy Group, predicts that within a few years his hotels will have to charge $75 for a bottle of Bordeaux. "I think," Sir Hugh says, "that we shall have to take lemonade...
...after the death of English Novelist Evelyn Waugh, his diary−a minor masterpiece of snobbism and malicious observations−is being published in seven installments by the London Observer. In 1930, when Waugh was busy with the social-literary set, he wrote: "After dinner I went to the Savoy Theater and said: 'I am Evelyn Waugh. Please give me a seat.' So they did. I saw the last two acts of Paul Robeson's Othello. Hopeless production but I like his great black booby face." Waugh also noted disapprovingly that Poet Edith Sitwell and her family...
Died. Andy Razaf, 77, lyricist whose hits included Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', Stompin' at the Savoy and Milkman's Matinee; in Los Angeles. The son of a Madagascan nobleman, Razaf (real name: Andrea Paul Razafkeriefo) was born in Washington, D.C., after his father had been killed and his mother had fled during a French invasion of Madagascar in 1895. He wrote more than 1,000 songs during the '20s and '30s and in 1972 was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame...