Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lehrer's "career" branched out from a pleasant habit of writing songs for people. 'In the old days," when it was for a roommate or a guy at dinner, I'd write hundreds of songs," Lehrer says. "Now that it's my living, I've stopped doing it. Then, if it was a lousy song, nobody cared. But when I started singing for money, it was a matter of deleting songs rather than adding them. I only write songs I can use professionally now, the other ideas are generally too personal or too offensive to use on the stage...
...from stereotyping. He has played the part of the clean-cut, pure-hearted hero so often in Pudding shows that it is liable to become second-nature to him, unless something is done soon. He has more lines and worse ones than most of the characters, and only one song that he has a chance with. Rupert Hitzig, playing Lorentz's romantic interest, is also hampered by too much dialogue and a weak singing voice. He tries hard with the one song he has that packs any punch, "Lost Another Man," but effort, unfortunately, is not enough...
...Afternoon Concert. Clementi--Sonata in G Minor. Op. 34 (Piano) (V) LM 1902; Shastakovitch--Song of the Forest (Van) Vang. 422; Bach--Goldberg Variations (V) LM 1080: Gliere--Symphony # 3 (Ilya Mourometz (D) DL 9819; Handel--Sonata #3 Op. 1 #12 (Violin (c) ML 4787; Bloch--Israel Symphony...
...proved, the product often creates the market, not the reverse. Nevertheless, many English concentrators and others in literature courses often find themselves lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...
...gets equally enthusiastic over such diverse works as The Chick, a raucous new recording that spoofs rock 'n' roll and pop records, and Ages of Man, Sir John Gielgud's new readings from Shakespeare. Listening to Johnny Desmond's recording of Bye Bye Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade, once cracked: "All this business of ffrr and FDS is just slogans, like 'It Floats,' for Ivory soap. Do you know what...