Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shapely brown shoulders and a round, roguish face, framed in a triangle of white light, showed above the grand piano's shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin's Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ripplingly. For a while it surged along according to Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...
...kinds of weather and all sizes of audiences (up to 60,000) in his 1,398 concerts, was unruffled by the wet evening. He knew that of the hardy hundreds who braved the rain, some were there to hear the light, pleasant band numbers: a grand march, a Strauss waltz, a fantasy for cornet. Others came for the tangier items by modern composers: Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture (led by the composer), a suite for band by the late British composer Gustav Hoist, works by Percy Grainger, Philip James, Stravinsky. Bandmaster Goldman caters to varied tastes, puts...
...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...refuse to play in Hitler's Germany. He has written two books on plans for a United States of Europe. A onetime resident of Vienna, he believes that Germany and Austria should be separated. In an interview after his recent arrival in Manhattan, he danced a Viennese waltz to demonstrate his conviction that Poles and Russians play Viennese music without the "beery heaviness" of the Germans...
...stunt, an Adler-Draper recital is genuinely expressive and musicianly. The pair perform solos in turn-Adler with a movement from a Bach concerto, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel's Bolero, etc., and Draper with taps to a Scarlatti pastorale, a Bach fantasia, The Blue Danube waltz. When they get going together, their act is a production...