Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit at an international fair, Bandleader Benny Goodman and his 14 musicians were soon summoned to Bangkok's royal palace for a command performance. For an hour, as King Phumiphon, 29, himself both a jazzy hornblower and composer (Blue Night), and Queen Sirikit tapped in tempo, Goodman and his men swung out such tunes as On the Sunny Side of the Street and a royalty-requested Lazy River. The King then gave each member of Goodman & Co. a crested silver cigarette case, was in turn presented with a handsome clarinet. That was enough to kick off a jam session...
...over the crucial blending and balancing of libretto and score that difficulties arise, partly from differences in tempo and tone, partly from the operetta medium itself. What is most inspired and Voltairian about Candide must plague operetta writing. Voltaire's book is much better suited to a film, which could approximate the breakneck pace and have a field day with the calamities; or to pure opera, which wholly through music could catch the book's speed, glancing wit and mocking elan...
...Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped off the bandstand in a tiff over tempo, truculently hired his own band, by the time (1953) he and Jimmy were playing together regularly again, had made a pile of cash ($900,000 a year at one point) and some fine jazz (Opus I, Well Git It) and swing (Song of India, Marie...
Notable Example. When she resigned last week, Italy's Premier Segni cabled: "You have served with success the cause of Italian-American friendship." Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "She has given a notable example of how well a woman can discharge a political post of grave responsibility." Added influential Il Populo: "News of her departure is met with regret everywhere in Italy...
During the 1930s, most of the long-eared musical world was playing a waiting game. Famed Austrian Pianist Artur Schnabel was slowly recording his way through the Beethoven sonatas-Schnabel would no more hurry a recording session than he would a Beethoven tempo-and each new disk was an event. The whole series ranked as a masterpiece. Schnabel died in 1951, and his old 78 r.p.m. records soon became obsolete in the LP age. Last week Victor brought him back in his finest reincarnation, a package containing all 32 sonatas on 13 LPs, plus Schnabel's own meticulous edition...