Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orchestra, under Daniel Hathaway, gives a mixed performance. It shines in the andante sections, where its sound is full, rich, almost velvety. But in the rhythmic, percussive parts it is heavy and uncoordinated, and the strings are sometimes scratchy and out of tune...
...warned in a mad melange of metaphor. 'The empire comes in by the back door, the front door and the side door. We may worship at the shrine of nonalignment, but if we throw away the content by letting the man who pays the piper call the tune, then there will be no nonalignment. So far as the U.S. is concerned, you do not get any more money by sucking up. If you want aid, don't beg them. Kick them...
...amalgam of animal and human acts from Europe and America. Some concessions are made to the 20th century: there is an elephant production number entitled "This Is New -Pussycat," and 50 sumptuously undercostumed ballerinas go through the Radio City Music Hall bit (step, two, three, whirl, kick) to the tune of What's New, Pussycat? But otherwise the circus seems happily unaltered from the days when Barnum was fleecing one a minute...
...played only once for Songwriter Mack David, who happened to catch it in the Louis Armstrong version. Hadn't he heard that song before? He sure had. Back in 1948, David had written a tune called Sunflower. It sold 300,000 copies of sheet music and 2,000,000 recordings, but it disappeared from the ionosphere like Halley's comet. It goes like this (in E-flat...
...persisted. The case never got to court. As often happens in such situations, the litigants tried to iron things out without publicity. Nevertheless, reported Variety last week, in spite of flat denials and "no comments" from all concerned, Herman's lawyers have settled out of court to the tune...