Word: schmalz
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...STETS EIN REICH STARK GEMACHT, BUTTER UND SCHMALZ HABEN HOCHSTENS EIN VOLK FETT GEMACHT--who said that...
...Last year, Bach Soc did RVW's "Lark Ascending," which was beautifully done. The piece for this concert should be well worth hearing, so don't miss it. Bach Soc has demonstrated that it's able to pull off a program combining German baroque and English pastoral or Russian schmalz very well...
...Orange) Anthony Burgess after hearing his Symphony C performed for a bewildered but appreciative audience at the University of Iowa. The avant-garde composition began "as an English dance rhapsody and developed into a symphony more or less against my will," explained Burgess. Its finale is "corny, full of schmalz, with a mandolin tinkling away in the background," and at the end "the orchestra plays a single fortissimo chord of C major and everybody goes off for a drink." The music's mystery may be rooted in its unusual creation. Burgess, 58, wrote at least half of his symphony...
...accent is at least as good as Henry Kissinger's," boasts Champagne Music Maker Lawrence Welk, and his sense of harmony may even be better. Still, the king of schmalz announced last week that he would not run for President in 1976. Welk disqualified himself after 5,000 followers, led by an ardent Santa Barbara, Calif, fan, had written to suggest his candidacy. "Politics, like music and golf, is best learned at an early age," said Welk. "Having reached the age of 72, I'm afraid it is a little late to change horses in the middle...
...special adviser to the Republican Party, but there is another rumor going around--Nixon is becoming a rock-n-roll star and his first releases have created a new genre in the dying art form: the you were there genre, a cross between the blues, and solo schmalz (i.e., Frank Sinatra's "I Did it My Way"). Nixon, according to unofficial sources, is even preparing some television advertisements to be released next year in celebration of the bicentennial, and a rough copy of one of those ads goes something like this...