Word: schmalzing
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While other songwriters are heading for country creeks and watermelon vines, Springsteen celebrates urban lowlife. His songs are ambitious mini-operas populated by punk saints and Go-Kart Mozarts in scenarios laced with schmalz and violence. His territory: the streets of Harlem, tenements, the funky world of the boardwalk's pinball way with its dusty arcades and machines. Bursting with words, images rush along in cinematic streams of consciousness...
Composition by committee? Why not? Most of our Broadway musicals and pop records, to cite but two examples, are produced by committees or their equivalent. The Yellow River Concerto turns out to be delectable schmalz that rivals such an old classical "pops" favorite as the Warsaw Concerto...
Born. To Melanie, 25, baby-voiced folk-schmalz singer whose most appropriate musical question was What Have They Done to My Song, Ma?, and her manager-husband Peter Schekeryk, 31: their first child, a girl; near Neptune, N.J. Name: Leilah...
England has given Noel Coward to the musical stage, the Beatles to rock and Mantovani to schmalz. But try as it might, it has not been able to make a major contribution to that indigenous American art form, jazz. Except, that is, for gin and Cleo Laine...
...adorned ominously by the obligatory -or so it seems these days-cross of Calvary, Nijinsky is essentially an old-fashioned allegory play dolled up for the stoned age. Its recounting of the life of the great Russian dancer is set to a schizoid musical score (electronics by Pierre Henry, schmalz by Tchaikovsky). To Béjart, Nijinsky is a cast of characters all by himself-artist, simpleton, genius, child of nature and clown of God. Nijinsky also went mad in his last years and thought he was Jesus. Drawing on that, Béjart goes on to pose Nijinsky...