Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin, Connecticut's Miller, he "withdrew" the letter, which had been in the hands of the 50,000 Record readers for eight days. The Butte doctor said he had had the "Col. House" letter printed to find out whether it was true, then reverted to his regular theme, told reporters...
...French Riviera. In the audience was a jumpy, pink-eyed little Czech composer named Jaromir Weinberger, world-famed for his lilting opera Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer. Composer Weinberger was much struck. Said he: "I liked this whole scene very much and I said to myself: 'This is the theme for which you, Jaromir, shall write variations and a fugue...
...Music" seems to have hit at last on the right formula for putting a great man of music on the screen. The solution: putting him on the screen. Heifetz and more Heifetz, superbly recorded, is the main element of this film; all others are kept subordinate. And yet, the theme of a children's music school struggling to get along, though it sounds impossible, provides a moderately interesting plot. It also affords the chance to show off some truly remarkable child musicians and singers, of a breed quite distinct from Shirley Temple. A lad with a strikingly handsome face, Gene...
...greatest of the whit trumpeters." And there are many that consider him to be better than even the immortal Louis Armstrong. Be this as it may, the point remains that Mr. Berigan can play some very good trumpet when he gets around to it, best examples being his theme "I Can't Get Started" and his solo on the famous Benny Goodman record of "King Porter Stomp...
...made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive, it rolls back on itself, it picks up its theme and tosses it to us again, with rich improvements." This is a kind of theorizing which is surely in a class by itself...