Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piped-in music at dinner. The trial program of music, approved by the House committee, consisted of an album entitled "50 Great Moments in Music," and included excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Symphony #6, Sibelius' Finlandia, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, Offenbach's Parisienne, and Chubby Checker's Let's Twist Again...
...waiters up there passing champagne and beef Stroganoff on sterling silver platters. She had Henry Fonda, Robert Preston. Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly. She had jazzman Ted Straeter, with a five-piece band. The young people of the Bolshoi loved every minute of it. When Straeter flooded the place with twist music, members of the corps de ballet were soon writhing to its rhythms...
...nothing. The visitors, he explained, were not subject to Soviet law; the nude gambolers were the losers in a decadent Western game that the Americans called "strip poker." Among stilyagi, the Soviet Teddy boys on whom Komsomolskaya Pravda lavishes most of its sermons, it could catch on like the Twist...
...mind in the same way that Chaplin, Picasso, Prokofiev, Debussy and even Beethoven represented a new frame of mind. They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while on a State Department-sponsored tour of Latin America. It was simple, Byrd discovered, "to play a very full jazz solo...
...though they were just plain U.S. society, they gyrated a passable twist at the Newport, R.I., estate of former...