Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew of clowning harmonica players, varied tap-dance routines, and a Sovitsky overture-impression help round out a rather simple yet not unpleasant evening's entertainment...
Katerina thereafter has lovely lyrical music, played by tender strings. Upstairs in the bedroom she takes off her slippers, braids her hair. The percussions sound a tap-tap-tap and Sergei boldly enters. The rape scene which follows is probably the loudest in history, an uproar of brasses, tympani, cymbals. Shostakovich again uses a waltz, this time to satirize the prowling father-in-law who catches Sergei as he climbs out the window. In the flogging scene the audience could fairly hear the swish of the whip. When the father-in-law lay dying, Soviet scorn of the church...
...incredible backhand shots that have made him four times ping-pong champion of the world. On the other side, whacking them back with a persistence that amazed sophisticates in the crowd who knew that only two years ago he was one of the late Texas Guinan's tap-dancers, stood red-haired Jimmy McClure of Indianapolis...
...four. At six she was studying the violin. At twelve she played at local dances in the family quartet. She was the pianist, her brother the first violinist, her mother the second, her father the cellist. When she nodded at the keyboard her father roused her with a tap on the shoulder with his cello bow. Because the family was too poor to buy their music, they borrowed it. And often after playing until midnight 12-year-old Marcelline sat up into the morning to copy the parts by candlelight...
...Negro had been pardoned again because Mr. Lomax had made a phonograph record of a second petition and taken it to Louisiana's Governor Allen. Lead Belly was released from prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held together by string...