Word: waltzed
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...Haydn songs were gems. Works of his maturity, they are joyous without being flippant, poignant yet optimistic. The first of the two sets of Brahms waltzes is the more widely known, perhaps because it has fewer solo passages and thus is more often performed by choruses; perhaps also because it maintains a gayer, more spontaneous mood than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although...
...binaural, but thanks to the skill and care lavished on both the performances and the recordings, it is some of the finest sound to be heard on records. Cook's first symphonic releases include two potpourris: Masterpieces of the Dance, with such old war horses as the Emperor Waltz and Danse Macabre, and Masterpieces from the Theater, with music from Carmen, La Gazza Ladra and Euryanthe. The major effort is Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, which, despite a too-speedy finale, is the best available LP of the great work. All are played...
...rapacity of Regina Hubbard and her scheming brothers gives Blitzstein a chance to point up their bile-laden words with incongruously sweet sounds, and he makes the most of it-as when Regina sings a waltz with such words...
...Peter Lindstrom, ex-husband of Actress Ingrid Bergman and now a resident of Pittsburgh, once again made news of sorts. At a benefit ball for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he teamed with Mrs. Kenneth Johnstone, the wife of a friend, to win the Viennese waltz contest. Result: a picture of a heavily robed, crowned and painfully self-conscious dance king...
...plainly froth: light, half-joking canvases whose titles are meant to titillate, not explain. He showed a slim grand piano encircled with a wedding ring, called it The Happy Hand. His Art of Conversation has two graceful swans paddling neck to neck about a blue lake. His Hesitation Waltz is a picture of two oranges decked out in masks, eying each other warily. One of the favorites: Night at Pisa, which shows the famed leaning tower considerately propped up by an outsize kitchen spoon...