Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years Poniatowski had been a vocal and witty critic of the Gaullist party, though it was a role that he found somewhat difficult to play after Pompidou named him Health Minister 14 months ago. He complained that the party's paternalism was becoming mere arrogance, that France itself was catching "the Gaullist disease, which is to live on the past, on traditions, on dogmas...
...oblivion of even his name." This first LP of his music suggests that the real Heinrich lies somewhere between Beethoven and oblivion. He was a Bohemian immigrant who, among other things, wrote some grandiose orchestral works and helped found the New York Philharmonic Society in 1842. The piano and vocal pieces offered here will strike some listeners as benign imitations of Haydn and early Beethoven. Yet compared with the efforts of other American composers at the time, they are notable in their harmonic freedom, improvisatory style and whimsical subject matter. Epitaph on Joan Duff, for example, is the sweet...
...city tour, Bell has predominantly worked as a warm-up act for other groups. That will give American audiences an "opportunity to get to know me gradually," she says. But as the Doobie Brothers, Poco and Dave Mason all can attest, she frequently upstages the headliners with a vocal style as subtle as Vesuvius. Small wonder that, on occasion, lights and sound equipment have suffered mysterious malfunctions during Maggie...
...point system of rationing managed by the Office of Price Administration, George S. Kaufman said that Lyons "missed so many points that he was under investigation by the OPA." One botched Lyons story: after Noel Coward had made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned the borough's vocal displeasure, he began his visits to U.S. military hospitals with the question: "Anybody here from Brooklyn?" If any of the patients assented, Coward replied: "I'm Noel Coward. Go ahead." When Lyons reported this byplay, its edge was blunted: "I'm Noel Coward. Anybody here from Brooklyn...
...Jokes. Standing ramrod-straight in a business suit, Gothard lectures with few gestures, fewer jokes, no vocal theatrics and as props, only an easel for sketching and an overhead projector that flashes charts and lists of "Basic Steps" or "Root Problems" on a screen. Yet his hearers sit in rapt attention, jotting in thick red notebooks. Half of the listeners are in their teens or 20s, half are older couples, mostly white Protestant and middle class, eager for packaged help on the woes that afflict modern American families. Thousands are so enthusiastic that they take the course a second time...