Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of songs for U.S. national holidays. Holiday Inn provided him with the right framework. According to its episodic plot, Singer Crosby turns his rural retreat into a roadhouse on every holiday in order to make country life pay, and to give himself and Fred Astaire a chance to sing and dance...
Crosby needles Astaire ("That'll be easy, like peeling a turtle"), makes sage love to the heroine (Marjorie Reynolds), ad libs at will, takes time out to kid one of his own recordings ("Sing it, sing it pretty!"). Two of the picture's best new songs (Berlin threw in Easter Parade and Lazy for good measure) are his: Abraham, a solid swing spiritual for Lincoln's birthday, and Let's Start the New Year Right, which does...
Edward Plumb's background music is expertly keyed into the production, but none of Bambi's four songs (best: Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song) is notable. Some innovations are. For the first time, Disney has done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking. The russet reds, browns, bright yellows, make autumn look like autumn. Each season has a special color impact. The colors are softer, more alive and, with the aid of the multiplane camera, give the picture solidity, the forest a three-dimensional depth...
Later Pietro overcame his fear of death. Loss of that fear gave him an appetite for living which made any wealth beyond that of bare life ridiculous. It also gave him a complete distrust of theory and oratory. "Must I force myself to shout and sing," he asked, "if I have only voice enough for ordinary conversation? A seed of wheat beneath the snow is a poor thing; we might tax it with not having the value of a bomb or a pearl...
Strange to U.S. ears are the songs Bela Bartok listens to. The 300 discs of love songs, recorded in wild, mountainous Herzegovina, have irregular, formless lines, queer vocal embellishments. Stranger still are the heroic songs, long, rambling tales of adventure and battle (the longest takes twelve hours to sing; many are several thousand lines long). They are chanted to a singsong type of melody, half speech, half music, whose short phrases are repeated with endless monotony. Under the voice runs a twanging countermelody, plucked out on the one-stringed gusla...