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...make no boasts but our outfit, consisting of a blind fiddler, a competent cornetist and deponent at the cabinet organ or piano, as the case happened to be-used to go out in the country to farm dances. . . . Mostly we played square dances, though we had two or three waltzes-'The First Kiss Waltz,' 'The Cornflower Waltz,' 'The Skaters' and 'Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?' There wasn't a note in the lot. We all played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sage Looks at Swing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...with a buxom armful of gently protesting but finally surrendering cornfed, Walnut Valley gal in your arms, to the slow and formal threnody of the waltz, a fellow kind of felt he was of some importance. . . . The tunes tangled in one's dreams for days; and the pressure of a warm hand-and even if it was a little sweaty and sticky it was young and ardent -might easily linger through life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sage Looks at Swing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *"The Moldan" Symphonic Poem Smetans *"To A Wild Rose" MacDowell *Walls Seene from "Faust" Gouned *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Scherso from "A Mid Summer Night's Dream" Mandelssohn *Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Suppe *By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Waltz *Song of the Volga Bargemon Arranged by Gazounov *Pomp and Circumstance Elgar

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...Dance orchestra: Wayne (Waltz) King (for the sixth time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Noses Counted | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...show's one really hot number came when the entire cast went to town with He Is an Englishman, first treating the tune straight, then sweetening it in waltz-time, finally letting fly with a full blast of boogie-woogie while the dancers stomped, slid, slithered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gilbert & Sullivan Warmed Up | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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