Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valedictory statement, La Galli-Curci favors the individual concert over the opera presentation as being more in tune with a mechanical age. By this, she seems to suggest that the radio and the "talkie" have been the factors in upsetting bel canto. Opera, she asserts, is too heavy-footed in comparison with them. The world has lost interest...
...quite as resourceful as his U. S. compeer. The music, for instance, which accompanies his latest revue is by a trio consisting of Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and that infectious zoologist, Cole ("Let's Do It") Porter who used to lead the Yale Glee Club. A tune by the late great Bach is intoned during a dance entitled "Gothic'' in which two girls named Tilly Losch and Ann Barberova strike attitudes marvelously reminiscent of medieval sculpture and stained glass. To the threnodies of Ravel, the remarkable Losch, whose dancing has made her something of a fetish...
...wild familiar Irish tune was in the air. It shrilled and banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth?indisputably the most adored and potent man in India...