Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than a month after the picture monthly New World proposed political union of the U.S. and Canada (TIME, Oct. 13), another Canadian voice sang a different song. The U.S., wrote Journalist Leslie Roberts (in a series of articles to be syndicated next week in Canadian and U.S. newspapers), is an inept, conceited, selfish country, drunk with power. Two years ago, said he, friendship between the two countries was at an alltime high. But "in recent months, this feeling has changed sharply. If it has not become hostile, at least it can be described as edgy...
Said he: "In the old days, we used to write songs for singers. The songs were personal, and the public felt that. Now they write songs for publishers. You could write a song about 'My Dear Old Mother' or 'I Love You' in a way that seems like terrible corn today. But today songwriters have become too selfconscious. They are afraid of being hooted out of town for writing that kind of thing. Actually, you know," he added in his scratchy, rapid-fire tenor, "corn of itself is always good...
...Perhaps this new song will heal the wounds. It is entitled "The Crimson Tide...
...fact, the musical sound track of "Song of Love" is almost an undiluted pleasure. The Schubert fiasco was built about one piece, Gershwin's music was abominably played, and Chopin's was doled out in little snippets mostly transcribed for orchestra, but in "Song of Love" Metro has avoided all of these faults. The music is played well, if without much verve, by Artur Rubinstein, and there is lots of it. The film opens with a huge chunk of Loszt's E flat concerto, and later developments weave in all of Brahms' splendid G minor rhapsody, parts of his first...
...importance, but also the philosophy behind them. Schumann's work follows a unique pattern of development which is extremely important for a comprehension of his ideas. Opus numbers 1-22 are all for piano solo; the year of his engagement to Clars Week was, in his own words, "song year," when he composed around 150 songs, some of them of incomparable beauty. This, on a similar basis, was followed by symphonic year, chamber music year, and so on. This growth provides a pattern of Schumann's life that the creators of "song of Love," preoccupied with alternating farce and bathes...