Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debussy: La Mer (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). One of Debussy's most mellifluous tone paintings is given a superb performance and recording...
...love You, I like You, I'm crazy for you. . . . But I'm Napoleon Bonaparte." That's the tone of this year's Valentines as lacey pictures of love struck hearts and blushing young maidens vanish before the incoming rush of humorous gag cards...
...paramount issue of U.S. policy, foreign or domestic, had yet been placed for action before the new and determined 78th Congress, but the Senators and Representatives were making news all over the lot. Some was good, old-fashioned rowdy Congressional news which revolved around personalities; some reflected the serious tone of a Congress engaged...
...climax his concert Duke trotted out a brand-new composition called Black, Brown and Beige, the polishing of which had kept the band up half the previous night. It turned out to be one of the longest (45 minutes) and most ambitious pieces of tone painting ever attempted in jazz. Flavored with everything from Stravinskian dissonance to three-four time, it often seemed too ambitious. But there were stages of the emulsion that might appeal to any musician...
...best songs of the season. "That Old Black Magic." Hope gets caught in a shower with jealous husband William Bendix. Alan Ladd commits a ten-second murder, Lamour, Goddard, and Lake chant the woes of "A Sweater, A Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however, on the patriotic finale, and Harold Arlen's song "Old Glory." is a rehash from his own and better...