Word: waltz
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...knows that his music has a proper place in Boston, just as much as Koussevitzky's had. Says he: "I have no use for those snobs who look down their nose at everything but the most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very fussy about that...
These musicians help liven the waltz party to be held in Agassiz Hall at 8 p.m. tonight. Known as the "Hofbraeuhaus Orchestra" they play waltzes and polkas for similar parties throughout Boston...
...high time, thought State Representative Floyd L. Snyder, that the Missouri Waltz be established as Missouri's official state song. He introduced a bill to make it so. Then, to be sure all his fellow legislators could hum what they were voting for, he invited the orchestra of Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes) to swing through it for them. There was only one thing Snyder forgot: the lyrics...
...admirers in the nation's capital, tall, husky Conductor Hans Kindler is one of the U.S.'s great conductors (and, say some Washington ladies, "the most beautiful man"). To his detractors, he is a man "who can't even beat a waltz," a fellow who likes to chop up scores: one Washingtonian calls Kindler's National Symphony Orchestra "the only orchestra in the world to give a ten-minute performance of Petrouchka...
...orchestra hopped over from the Café Rouge at 2 a.m. Phlegm-voiced Vaughn Monroe, who had been among the last to record last December, tried desperately to get back from Ohio to be the first, but arrived too late. By noon the next day, Como's Missouri Waltz was on sale on Broadway...