Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Class poet Erich W. Segal entitled his selection "The Universe and Tea," and he poked fun at the multitude of Harvard "initials," from H.D.C. to P.B.K. John Felstiner gave a reading of the Class Ode, followed by Frederick Brozer who sang the ode to the tune of "Fair Harvard...
Equally notable is the disastrous rendition of the old music hall song Anne Boleyn ("With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm, She walks the London tower.") The Dunces have arranged the tune beyond recognition, and do not get the words across as well as they might...
Calling the Tune. The son of a Chicago sewer digger, Petrillo ''went into the union business" fulltime at 23 after he had failed to make an earning go of playing the trumpet ("If there was 14 trumpets in the band, I was the 14th trumpet"). When he hit the top, he called the tune: nobody, from Liberace to Rubinstein, it turned out. could play an instrument for pay in the U.S. without his consent. "What's the difference," he demanded, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Once he decided to give a concert honoring Chicago...
Calling the Tune.. Author Sheean is fascinated by Verdi's "peasant" response both to the grim tragedies of his youth and the fame of his later years. The words that appear in Verdi's last and perhaps greatest work, Falstaff-"Cammina! Cammina!" (keep going, keep going)-were already his maxim in his null and he kept going at the rate of more than an opera a year. Verdi hated Milan, hated the power of La Scala's management, hated "the rule of the foreigner and the secret police." But to "keep going." he pruned...
...Harbison had to cope with an unprepared orchestra in Mozart's Adagio and Fugue, K. 546. There was little he could do with the out-of-tune strings, and the number might better have been omitted...