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...Steve Ross has a wider repertoire. But no one better understands the romantic moods of Irving Berlin and the Brothers Gershwin. Most singers today would not even bother with Berlin's ancient Alexander's Ragtime Band, for instance; or if they did, it would most likely sound like a Sousa march. Caressing it seductively, Feinstein, occasionally improvising as he sings, transforms it into a love song...
...eyes at all," said one patient, Mary M. Sousa, 76, of Sommerville. "By evening I can do nothing but go to bed with a scarf over my head to cover my eyes. It's miserable...
...more. Put on the Willie Nelson record. Turn up Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. Woody Guthrie will do fine too, and even John Philip Sousa is permissible. The Zeitgeist has turned zesty. The U.S. is at peace, and between rising employment and fading inflation, the economy is aglow. Americans are feeling more sanguine and comfortable about their country than they have felt in two decades. A rebirth of the American spirit, as Carter dearly hoped five summers ago? It sure feels like it. Even the walkouts called against General Motors last weekend were reluctant and selective (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...selfconscious patriotism that's made on Madison Avenue." But the Democrats also are scrambling to embrace the potent symbolism of red-white-and-blue traditionalism. As Ferraro and Mondale paraded down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Labor Day morning, a brass band walked near by, playing Sousa marches. At the Democratic Convention in July, the San Francisco Girls and Boys Chorus sang America the Beautiful, This Land Is Your Land, while the delegate horde turned the convention floor into a blur of red, white and blue. Convention Guest Mark Green, co-author of There He Goes Again: Ronald...
...choose the music they wanted to accompany their moment at the podium from a repertoire of about 500 songs. Despite the extensive selection, Hart used recorded music. When Mondale requested Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, the band had to send out hastily for sheet music. Did the dearth of Sousa marches and the absence of brass bands offend convention regulars? Apparently not. "I like variation," said San Franciscan Paul Maag, who attended his first Democratic conclave in 1932. "I don't think I've heard Happy Days Are Here Again but twice this convention. And that...