Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night in 1917. The Moreaus were entertaining on their small farm outside Cap Saint-Ignace for their son Pierre, who had been lumbering in the U.S. for three years. After dinner the guests drank deep of rum, curaçao and whisky, and the fiddler struck up a lively tune. "Let's dance," a guest proposed. Everyone remembered that the village priest had forbidden dancing, but Pierre's father winked at his wife and she laughed and said: "Why not? Pierre does not return home every...
...latter subject, Herblock's views are completely in tune with all first-rate and perceptive American humorous and historic writing of the last 100 years. Ambrose Bierce stated the whole case in this little fable...
...little band plays in quiet tones. Picking out a popular tune like All the Things You Are, Pianist Brubeck and Saxophonist Paul Desmond toss the theme back & forth for a while. Then, before long, the tune disappears and in its place, stream-of-consciousness style, come whimsical variations hinting at everything from Stravinsky to Gershwin to Bach. When he comes to his solo part, Brubeck picks a random theme and toys with it, reflectively trying it first on the white keys, then on the black, allowing traces of Mozart or John Philip Sousa to creep in. Then his eyes close...
Once to Every Heart (Jo Stafford; Columbia). A tender ditty with a tune that is a bit too contrived to become a top hit with the jukebox juniors. Songstress Stafford's appealing voice is closely matched by some mellow trombones...
...Champions are a likable, talented couple who are fast on their feet, except when they are being tripped up by a molasses-slow script. Among the show's eight numbers, authored by a brace of songsmiths from Johnny Mercer to Johnny Green, is the old (1933) title tune, Everything I Have Is Yours...