Word: waltz
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...three members of the family and a painting by Sir Winston Churchill, presented to Harry Truman as a gift. The former President also sat down at Margaret's piano, wondering if it was in tune (it did not sound as if it was), and played the waltz he had taught her when she was first learning to play the piano. Then, as an encore, he played Paderewski's Minuet...
...Dorothy Stickney last Saturday as the wife of Curtis Honey, is delightfully Addamsian. Behind everything she says-even the tune she whistles-lurks the desire to eliminate her crochety old husband and enjoy a subsequent life of freedom and wealth. The tune, of course, is the Merry Widow Waltz...
Next morning, readers of the Canberra Times were startled to see Critic Peter Bailey's review of Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 ("The themes are catching and developed with simplicity and beauty . . . from the serious minor cadences of the opening Allegro we move to the lovely waltz-time theme of the Andante . . ."). Bailey carpingly dismissed the Berlioz work ("It seemed an anticlimax to have to listen to an encore by Tchaikovsky...
Arabella is basically an old-fashioned Viennese operetta-the sort that Johann Strauss really did much better than Richard†-without the courage of its corn. In Arabella, the waltz and schmaltz have been refined and intellectualized. Composer Strauss wrote this score in the tragically arid last third of his life, and he filled it with hints and quotations reflecting other works. His hand had lost none of its craft, and all the score lacks is inspiration. The Met postured prettily in its new hat; actually, Arabella was just an old toque...
...Song from Désirée (Anna Maria Alberghetti; Mercury). Italy's young coloratura is quaveringly miscast as a pop singer in this pseudo-Empire waltz, sounds at home only when vocalizing in the higher reaches...