Word: waltz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Katerina was quietly, miserably restless as strings droned and woodwinds sighed. The audience instantly caught her mood and hated the old father-in-law, introduced by strident horns and a mocking xylophone. The husband first piped in a silly high tenor while the orchestra beat out a double-quick waltz in which even a piccolo sneered...
...myriad zealots to the city gates, England's finest leave a half empty punch bowl to march forth amid the plaudits of the multitude and the tender lamentations of the fair. Dainty handkerchiefs flutter from the balconies as the troops march past, for it has been "the last waltz, Madeline, and m' regiment leaves at dawn." Historically speaking, just a trifle before dawn...
Fretted white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, at a lecture-recital in Philadelphia: "Ballroom dancing is hopelessly unintelligent. People don't know how to tango and they don't know how to waltz. What they are pleased to call dancing is just rhythmic hugging. ... Of course most people don't even know how to walk...
...that Philadelphians will long remember for its masterly blend of power and tenderness. Mozart and Schubert will have a place on Schnabel's recital programs this winter. But for New Yorkers he has another stiff Beethoven test. Next week he will play the Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. Said he to his manager last week: "You may warn the public, if you like, that they will occupy 53 minutes...
...pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage by a full chorus, while irrepressible Bobby Clark (& McCullough) leads her through a bumbling waltz...