Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fats doesn't like swing. He says it's going into "a modernistic throwaway." "Jus' give me something sofe, something sweet, something sentimental," he whispered. The latest thing, though, is the swing waltz. He heard one in Iowa that was "a killer...
...Baritone John Charles Thomas, first of 13 soloists on Kostelanetz' new series, will sing Home on the Range, a song from Apple Blossoms, Largo al Factotum from The Barber of Seville, as they were written. But next week Kostelanetz will excise large chunks from the Naila Waltz of Delibes, the Caprice Espagnol of Rimsky-Korsakov, and Pianist José Iturbi will whip through the finale of a Mozart sonata in 3 min. He will also play the piano part of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, minus only 4 min. of its 16-min. length...
...Louis Municipal ("Muny") Opera (not opera at all but musicomedy well-mounted on a revolving stage) has been running since June 4, when Bernice Claire, Gladys Baxter and Guy Robertson sang in The Great Waltz. Last week St. Louis applauded Oldtimer Blanche Ring's performance of Music in the Air by Hammerstein & Kern...
Featured songs on the program will be "The Rows of Roosevelt" and the "Name Song." The latter will be accompanied by a motion picture of the classmates under discussion. The dancing will be another high spot in the show, and the "Fancy Formations" waltz ballet number by the daughters of 1912 is by no means the smallest item of entertainment. Fred Child, professional dancing mentor, has directed this part of the affair...
...producer has designed all sorts of clever and handsome sets that move about the stage with a rapidity that is as enjoyable to the spectators as the show itself. Possessing all the qualities of a best-seller musical comedy, with a long run already behind it, "The Great Waltz" appears to become something in the nature of an American custom...