Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solitude," "Mood Indigo," "Sophisticated Lady," "It Don't Mean A Thing strongest factor in making a song a hit. (if it ain't got that swing)" are the most successful tunes among the 200 that the Duke's written. He isn't at all conceited about his success--he maintains that good publicity...
There are, to be sure, some very effective bits. The discussion of taking gold out of a hole in Brazil and putting it into a hole in Kentucky, and the wild attempts to assign a purpose to the operation, are rather trenchant, and the song "Off the Record" is a very clever assortment of Presidential confessions. Taylor Holmes, besides giving an excellent performance as Secretary of the Treasury, does as especially good job of singing "A Baby Bond." Even the songs, however, are not up to expectation, the only really tuneful one being "Have You Met Miss Jones?" In short...
...mastery of German economic and financial policy last week, Dr. Schacht himself went off to Essen and in this Krupp stronghold addressed a meeting of 400 directors of German savings banks. Some of them came out convinced they had heard the brusque, autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue under Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht if the Fatherland is to avoid perilous overspending for rearmament, catastrophic inflation...
...they had hardly any kit, were armed with rusty, ancient Mausers and threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from the depths of their exhaustion; the song (low, monotonous, tragic) positively wrung from their entrails, the very sound and expression of an unquenchable and undefeatable vitality. They were mostly young, very young, the month's growth of hair on their faces soft and curling...
...opening program of the Composers' Forum-Laboratory is as follows: String Quartet No. 2 Walter Hamor Piston. Three Songs Walter Raymond Spalding (A) Aubado (B) Sea Song (C) Sorrow and Joy Sextette for Wind Instruments and Piano Edward Burlingham Hill Trio in C for violin, violincello and piano William Clifford Hoilman Psalm 137 for mixed chorus Fan Stylian Noli