Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Take It With You. The phonograph is lower than the lights but the tune and the words are just audible: A cigarette that bears a lipstick...
...stage at the arena-styled ANTA Washington Square Theater has been tilted up so that the playing area resembles a giant record turntable, and since the actors burst into song every few minutes, it sometimes seems as if an invisible disk jockey were directing the play. The best tune, The Impossible Dream, could be transferred intact to Skyscraper, which suggests the show's basic defect. It ought to be 31 centuries distant from Broadway instead of merely 40 blocks away...
...prophecy of cynics, PP&M have stuck together in spite of marriages, babies and success. But, except for two songs that recall their former magic (The Rising of the Moon, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), their latest recording suggests that they have about played out their tune...
Bassos, by nature's design, are made-to-order heavies - big, beefy, barrel-chested; bouncers who can carry a tune. The foghorn pitch of their voices suggests heartaches not heroics, lechery not love. Bulgaria's Nicolai Ghiaurov, at 6 ft. 2 in. and 200 Ibs., is no exception. Yet in the six short years since he emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, he has won the kind of hand-to-heart adulation usually reserved for tenors...
Died. Sigmund Spaeth, 80, prolific author of music-appreciation texts (Music for Fun), remembered by radio and vaudeville audiences of the 1920s and 1930s as the razzle-dazzle "Tune Detective" who blithely traced the ancestry of I'm Always Chasing Rainbows to Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and Yes, We Have No Bananas to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...