Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bittersweet Memories. If Mick Micheyl is a Parisian spring breeze, Juliette Greco is a gust from a dark grotto. In Manhattan last week, with her weedy dark hair hanging to her waist, she chanted in French the bittersweet songs that have made her famous at home. Her large, square hands shaped the phrases; her high-cheekbonsd, chalky face was alternately sullen and sad. In her best song, I Hate Sundays ("Every day of the week is empty and hollow, but there's worse than the weekday, there's pretentious Sunday"), her voice faded to an organ whisper. Even...
...Missa Brevis ripples with exciting, shifting rhythms and rises skillfully to a colorful series of blasting choral climaxes occasionally more reminiscent of the bandstand than the choir. Oregon-born Composer Lou Harrison, 39, found the inspiration for his moving, low-pitched Mass in the percussion-accompanied plain song of the Indians of Spanish California, later Europeanized it with "contrapuntal accompaniment based on medieval methods." Rhythmically supple, vocally unadorned, the Mass achieves a fine wedding of the primitive and sophisticated...
...simplest way for an advertiser to get music for his commercials is to take it free from the public domain, e.g., Rheingold Beer's current use of the Banana Boat Song. The sponsor may also buy commercial rights to hit melodies. The fees run into thousands of dollars in the case of composers such as Cole Porter, who leased his It's De-Lovely to De Soto. At first, songwriters resisted this practice, but now many of them welcome it. They not only share the fees with their publishers, but they get regular ASCAP...
...before somebody would be allowed to win $100,000. We teased first with a few $50,000 winners. In terms of showmanship, we had to work out the ideal timing and the ideal winner." The producers chose 70-year-old Mrs. Ethel Richardson of Los Angeles, a folk-song buff. For a switch, they decided the next big winner should be a young schoolboy. They settled on 14-year-old George L. Wright III of Manhattan...
Marriage Revealed. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song) and cinemactor (Carmen Jones); and Julie Robinson, 28, sometime dancer with Katherine Dunham's troupe; on March 8, a week after his divorce from Wife No. 1; in Tecate, Mexico...