Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PRESSAGENTS: "Public relations is the greatest American discovery since 'relaxation' . . . The Americans can make in 24 hours, out of an uncouth truck driver, the king of popular song. But the French public takes a long time to get over this kind of shock...
...Torch Song...
...much of anything about history aside from some fatuously chauvinistic scraps out of the American past, the manual does not say. Under the high-school section "Using Tools of Communication Effectively," Hildebrand counted 44 items on "listening," e.g., "listening to a telephone conversation," "listening to the words of a song." He also noted under "Using Mathematics" such items as "counting change as cashiers do" and "opening a checking account and making out deposit slips." Bottom ways of "using mathematics": "making geometric constructions" and "forming and using equations to solve problems...
...last week's Cavalleria, from the moment Tucker's fervent and sensuous voice sounded offstage in Turiddu's precurtain love song, the audience was his. Dressed in a tinhorn gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about the stage in response to broken pleas from Santuzza (well sung by Veteran Zinka Milanov). He powerfully thundered forth his challenge to Alfio, husband of his mistress, and in the final great aria movingly sang his farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough...
...Indian savage to Venus, Federico Garcia Lorca's Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne throbs with Spanish symbolism, while France's Jules Laforgue dreams in Gallic-materialist specifics ("Des venaisons, et du whisky. . . et la loi de Lynch") and Walt Whitman shambles forth in his pagan-hobo way, singing The Song of the Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst Krenek...