Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That play, with the score tied, 2-to-2 in the fourth inning at Sportsman's Park St. Louis, one day last week, was the decisive moment of the 1935 major-league baseball season. It won the game (three runs made later were superfluous) for the Chicago Cubs. The game decided the National League pennant race...
Naturally the great interest in this production must focus upon Gershwin's music, for the libretto is but a direct translation of Heyword's familiar dramatic success. It is impossible, however, especially after a single hearing, to consider the score as an entity apart. Profoundly inspired by the rich drama of "Porgy", Gershwin has blended his music so utterly into the soul of the play that it combines with the stage actions to produce a single, deeply stirring impression...
...themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...
...Aurora scored three goals before Greentree got started. Then, with Tommy Hitchcock at No. 2 playing as well as he did before injuries the past two years made it look as if his polo days were over, Jock Whitney's team began to show its class (TIME, Sept. 23). Little George H. (''Pete") Bostwick, at No. 1, missed half a dozen shots at the goal but he counted with three others. Gerald Balding, at No. 2, had a hard time turning the speedy Aurora attack but he got away for two goals and Whitney made another which...
...that a sore-lipped trumpeter had to beg off from a high shrill B. Conducting the players fiercely was Alexander Smallens. Occasionally illustrating a passage at the piano, occasionally clapping his hands to clarify a rhythm, was Composer George Gershwin. Commissioned by the Theatre Guild, he had written the score for what may prove to be the finest attempt yet at a real U. S. opera...