Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peddling peanuts or pearls. She plays a rich, uninhibited Philadelphia widow who, unwelcome in society and uninvited to the Monaco nuptials, vengefully bags bigger game from the royal preserves. Where she can, Ethel outflanks her material; where she cannot, she outstares it. Just watching her handle a third-rate song can compensate for its third-rateness. Whatever her stage environment-riding an ocean liner or bucking the Main Line, singing of a dead husband or chatting with a live horse-she has the urgency of a steam calliope, the assurance of an empress, and a likable low-downness...
...tenets of Jeffersonian democracy, at least in the ABCs of Marxism. Founded in 1944, the school flourished in its early years, hit a peak enrollment of an astonishing 14,000 in 1946-47. Sample courses: "Principles of Marxism (which postulates are valid for the U.S.?)"; "Guitar Playing and Song Leading I and II (with emphasis on the use of the guitar as a social instrument)." For years the school's name has been bandied back and forth in congressional hearings. In 1947 the school was placed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations...
...bandstand in a tiff over tempo, truculently hired his own band, by the time (1953) he and Jimmy were playing together regularly again, had made a pile of cash ($900,000 a year at one point) and some fine jazz (Opus I, Well Git It) and swing (Song of India, Marie...
...Rilke Songs, by Frederic Rzewski, which followed, are written in a twelve-tone idiom of particular expressivity. They are for soprano with piano accompaniment, and are based upon two poems from the Book of Hours. Rzewski's music, although not easily accessible, is definitely to be reckoned with. In the first song particularly, there were moments of real beauty...
...Bolger in a floppy London music-hall version of With a Little Bit of Luck, from My Fair Lady. Tipping a pixy toe at his audience, Bolger will also invite a nostalgic following to join him in the happy choruses of Once in Love with Amy, a great vaudeville song from his 1948 Broadway hit, Where's Charley...