Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lily Pons: Waltz Album (Columbia, 8 sides). Piccolo-voiced Pons trills Gounod, Strauss and Noel Coward, all in three-quarters time. Performance: good...
...Grande Valse Brillante in A Minor, Opus 34, is a waltz only by virtue of its three-four time; its tempo (lento) brings it closer to the dark introspective nocturnes and preludes. To Horowitz, however, a waltz must be a waltz; by speeding it up to almost twice its generally accepted tempo, he gives it a ballroom flavor it was never meant to have...
...Hoover Administration, the band played barn dances in the East Room. In the days of Calvin Coolidge, the Marines never appeared at the White House without Lord Geoffrey Amherst. In Franklin Roosevelt's day they always carried Home on the Range. Now they are never caught without Missouri Waltz. For the music-loving Harry Trumans they have lately been playing as often as five times a week. Said Santelmann happily: "White House entertaining is getting back to normal...
...Stars Waltz. Double stars, whirling in space, are highly prized and much sought after by astronomers. Much of science's information on all stars comes from double stars...
...Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang the one bit of Bohème she knew: the famous second-act waltz song...