Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these days are three or four other regulars (depending on the music to be played), who operate everything from bass drum to bird whistles. Goodman plays on kettles he made himself in his Yonkers shop. Next to his pride in producing a perfectly sustained tone and his ability to tune his instruments to perfect pitch while the orchestra is playing, is his pride in his patented devices for simplified timpani tuning. He has sold kettledrums at $600 a pair to the major U.S. orchestras and to some foreign ones...
...Diddle-Diddle (Phil Harris and the Bell Sisters; Victor). Basso-Crooner Harris goes back to his childhood here, but the tune is lively and the near nursery-rhyme lyrics pleasant...
...breaks went both ways late in the game. The Crimson ended up on top because it had parlayed its early good for tune and Colgate's early confusion into 21 points
...rondo, one of the most characteristic of the classical forms; but the material which comprises it is anything but classical. The main section, written largely in irregular meters, is a wild affair with much brilliant display by the brasses. One of the contrasting sections is a sentimental waltz tune. The movement also includes one of Mr. Piston's rare samples of folk Americana, a country fiddler's tune...
...James Pease (his inner self is the castle). All this had the first-night audience sitting on the edge of its seats-partly out of excitement, partly trying to make out what was going on. Grand opera fans found it pretty rough going-the music never hit upon a tune, the orchestra was heavy and even the best-pleased listeners took issue with such details as Bluebeard's spidery costume and the static quality of the action. But psychoanalysis is popular in Manhattan. When it was all over, it looked as if Bluebeard's Castle would...