Word: schmalz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect of the Jewish element is missing." Attracted by better pay and opportunity, thousands of young Austrian intellectuals have deserted the Danube for West Germany and Switzerland. Sniffs the brilliant young actor-satirist Helmut Qualtinger, who stayed behind: "Austria is the Disneyland of Europe. Nothing but Lippizaners, Strauss, Schlag, schmalz and zithers. And who really likes Sachertorte...
VIENNA, 1908-1914 (Mercury) does not celebrate the vintage waltz-schmalz associated with the era, but the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who at the time formed a kind of progressive under ground in the city of Johann Strauss. Antal Dorati leads the London Symphony Orchestra in 13 orchestral pieces by the three modern masters...
...cruel fate divides them. His father (Dean Jagger) owns a circus, her father (Jimmy Durante) owns a circus-and the circuses are rivals. Romeo, sent incognito to swindle Juliet's father, falls in love with the lass instead. Duty at first conquers love, but in the end schmalz conquers...
...tune may be the perfect expression of Holly Golightly's sweet ambiance or a deft summation of a caviar girl recalling the days of grits and gravy. Then again, it may be simply lazy schmalz, dressed to the airy glamour of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Whatever the secret of its appeal, Moon River is the most successful melody to come from a film score since the classic Picnic theme six years ago. And its composer, Henry Mancini, has become Hollywood's hottest musicman. Says the modest Mancini: "I don't know how it happened, but there...
...composer, Kreisler suffered a congenital Viennese weakness-a taste for melodious schmalz. But his most popular works-Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Caprice Viennois, La Gitana, Schön Rosmarin-have grace as well as sentiment. They are so well tailored to the violin that they are almost certain to survive as favorite encore pieces. "His arrangements brought out things for the violin we never dreamed of," says Violinist Nathan Milstein. "The violin was advanced by three persons-Bach, Paganini and Kreisler...