Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BARDSTOWN, KY. My Old Kentucky Home State Park is, appropriately, the setting for the Stephen Foster Story, a song-filled tribute to the composer...
MILWAUKEE, WIS. Melody Top Tent. I Get a Kick out of You, You're the Top, Blow, Gabriel, Blow, and of course the title song Anything Goes are just four of the numbers that made Cole Porter's 1934 musical the tops for so long. It is still going strong, with Gretchen Wyler playing the original Ethel Merman role...
Europe in summertime abounds with music for every taste-from esoteric little festivals featuring medieval song to grandiose performances of opera in outdoor splendor, to instrumental concerts in historic settings. Among the highlights...
...delivered perhaps a bit more graphically than Aristophanes intended, but that was alright. It made me catch several that I'd somehow missed before. There were several other nice touches besides Harmony, a role filled (and how) by Laurie Campbell--including a calypso chorus to Lysistrata, and a folk-song paean to Athena. the nicest, though, was to give the Spartans ten-gallon Stetsons and Texas accents. It sort of gave you a better idea of what Demosthenes was up against...
...jealous: last week, less than two months after its national release, the single had sold more than a million copies and had zoomed to first place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. At the same time, RCA issued an LP combining 2525 with nine of Rick's other songs (no protest stuff, just reminiscences about love and other "Now subjects"). Everybody connected with the album was confident that it would do just as well as 2525. Especially Rick. "Nearly every song is profound," he said unflinchingly...