Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waiting for John's plane, Mamie Eisenhower was radiant. Ike made a brave but futile effort to mask his emotions. A great grin kept spreading over his face, and he was jouncing up & down on his toes as if in time to a gay tune. When John stepped down from the plane with his wife Barbara, he was greeted by a hug and kiss from Mamie, a warm handclasp from his father. Said Ike quickly: "Hello, Son." A newsreel man yelled: "Put your arm around John." Ike balked. "You just go ahead," he replied, a five-star bite...
Quartering the Apple. The music is soft, even in its occasional larruping climaxes, and modern in its distilled dissonances, and it always keeps the original tune in mind. It comes in three basic models: 1) slow and intimate, as in My Funny Valentine, when Marian seems to dissect the tune pensively, as if she were quartering an apple, then puts it all neatly together again better than new; 2) at breakneck tempo, as in Liza, where the tune dashes off in improbable directions and fetches up, quivering, back where it started; 3) production numbers, as in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue...
Troublesome Tunes. Gioconda de Vito was born in the south Italian hill town of Martina Franca, locally famed for its bandits, where her father was a well-to-do owner of vineyards. Music was in the air, and she was picking out tunes on the mandolin before she was four, soon switched to the violin. Curiously, she could not (and still cannot) carry a tune. This failure almost cost her the chance to study at the Pesaro conservatory, but her fiddling got her by, and in two years she had carried away all available prizes...
...lacks a real theme, but practically every movie these days has a theme song. The man on top of the trend is Dimitri Tiomkin, a 54-year-old concert pianist turned composer, who made a deep impression on the industry and the rest of the U.S. with one folksy tune: Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling (from High Noon...
Composer Tiomkin, who speaks fractured English splinted with a Russian accent, explains: "Hollywood begin to come to song mostly from matter of exploitation . . . When I make the title tune for High Noon, I think song help make continuity, musical dissolves, time element ... I thinking this picture a little bit too static. Music give feeling of action. I get inspiration from American bandit songs from Carl Sandburg's American Song Bag." The tune, with Lyricist Ned Washington's help, soon became a jukebox favorite, has sold almost 2,000,000 records. Tiomkin has already earned more in royalties than...