Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harpsichord with two keyboards and seven pedals, Ralph Kirkpatrick presented representative pieces from Baroque masters of England, France, Holland, Germany and Italy. Many of these pieces were stylized dance forms, such as a Galliardo and a Pavana by England's William Byrd. The Pavana was a slowly paced, simple tune adorned with incredibly rapid scale passages and trills...
...sensation, dropped 100,000 circulation last year. Publisher Johnson, 37, countered with a drive for home subscribers, dropped cheesecake and gossip for more serious reporting of Negroes in the news, and won back his readers. Johnson learned the hard way that the new-style Ebony is more in tune with its readers' interests. Says he: "The Negro press has depended too much on emotion and racial pride. Negroes have grown out of that...
With these points cleared up, the orchestra played through the work. It opened somberly, a death march with sighing strings, touched here and there with sunset colors. As a climax to the symphony's first section, winds played a noble tune over massed strings that sounded as if they had just come from prayer meeting. With the second part, the composition went into dance rhythms that turned misterioso with a ululating vibraphone, then into a drunken Kerry dance with skirling reeds, then into a ragtime climax followed by a pastoral section that sounded as if it should be called...
...summer of 1927, but its fame was delayed. It all began when a young Indianapolis lawyer named Hoagland Carmichael went back for a visit to Indiana University. He "spent the lonely night, dreaming of a song," and he liked it. He found a piano and picked out the tune. It was a lively little ditty, and that was the way Hoagy, as piano man with the famed Jean Goldkette orchestra, played it the next year. It bothered almost nobody until Bandleader Isham Jones recorded it in a haunting lento. Jones's violin soloist "played it pretty," says Hoagy, "with...
...peace was wonderful for Stardust. In 1949 readers of Metronome, venerable U.S. music magazine, voted it "best song of all time." Last year Stardust's kiss was still an inspiration, or at least a consolation: one of the most intricate of modern jazzmen, Pianist Dave Brubeck, played a tune at Manhattan's Basin Street that only two members of the audience recognized as Stardust, while in the dance hall around the corner, the ten-millionth blonde said. "Oooooh, listen, honey. They're playing our song...