Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shoes & the Sunset. In Elgin, Ill., rummaging for a pair of red shoes at a dollar-day counter, Sherida Weber spotted a single shoe, saw its mate in the hand of another customer, refused to part with hers, camped near her opponent for five hours until, just before closing time, she agreed to a coin toss, lost, impulsively bought ten pairs of assorted styles...
...harmony and such sensitivity that many historians consider him centuries ahead of his time, see in him a musical contemporary of Richard Wagner. Until recently, the modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated by Gesualdo's violent career, and is now equally fascinated by his madrigals. They are, writes Huxley...
...mesa-filled distances; the men automatically fall into line for a barn dance or a posse. In fact, they may be getting too practiced and familiar. Even John Wayne seems to have done it once too often as he makes his standardized, end-of-film departure into the sunset...
Paul Nero and his Hi Fiddles (Sunset). More fuel for an old dispute: Is it possible to play jazz on a violin? The present answer: sometimes. Nero, composer, arranger and onetime concert violinist, gets at least halfway out of the corn belt, at least in the string ensembles, but drops a few kernels while he burns...
...exquisite American impressionist school, which followed in the light footsteps of the French, remains undervalued. Yet museum directors-sensitive to a growing popular interest in American painting-have been snapping up such characteristic examples as Childe Hassam's Church at Old Lyme, Conn, and Maurice Prendergast's Sunset and Sea Fog (opposite...