Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote the article in your June 3 issue headed "Miltown? No Martinis!"? The bird who pecked out another story in the People section concerning the search in the Library of Congress for an old song wanted by a Congressman? The Library of Congress system bears about the same resemblance to the Dewey decimal system as I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy bears to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Two institutions as holy as the Library of Congress and the Martini are not laughing matters...
Somehow, out of all this vast confusion (amplified by the presence of five pony-sized Irish wolfhounds, cast as hunting dogs) emerged as powerful and moving a performance as British operagoers have seen in many years. Berlioz was anxious in The Trojans to restore pure song to first place in opera, and he succeeded magnificently. The work is studded with lovely arias bathed in richly hued orchestration. The musical theme that runs through the opera is the broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag...
...Song makes the best hot-weather din-and-tonic, thinks NBC. The 7:30 evening slot will be tryout time for promising Vocalist June (Crying in the Chapel) Valli. Baritone Andy Williams and resurgent, as-good-as-ever Helen O'Connell. Tennessee Ernie Ford will end his daytime pea-pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color...
...jobs) offers the one hope of earthly release from a doom of sweat, petty theft, envy, slander. For peasant poverty here has not made for nobility of soul-these people are tougher than the brass-hearted Normans of De Maupassant. Unlike the Irish who made a myth and a song of economic despair, these Mediterranean realists can only make brutal gestures, and Novelist Rimanelli has told a chronicle of such gestures in terms of the Vietri family...
...must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some of the marches it was soon to contend with-Communism's booming International or Nazi Germany's gutter hymn, the Horst Wessel Song-it lacked steel. It was really a recessional...