Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loves makes her way and becomes a famous actress. They meet again. He is implicated in a crime in Union Square. He escapes to her apartment over the roof tops. And at the end the man and woman stand alone among stars, facing an unknown destiny to the waltz strains of a musical comedy finale...
...mocks it-rolls it ahead like a ball, follows after on subtle feet. The work is, in pattern, like those opera ballets of the 18th Century. Everything is a dance ; the chair-song a minuet; the fire-talk a gigue; dragon flies weave to the slow air of a waltz; the teapot chortles in a foxtrot. It is music that smiles over its shoulder, that caresses only with the tips of its fingers, and laughs at itself in its own mirrors...
...From the New World" Symphony Dvorak Intermission 5. Suite, "Children's Corner" Debussy-Caplet a. Quincho's Lullaby b. Serenade for the Doll c. Golliwog's Cake Walk 6. Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet 7. Berceuse Slave Neruda-Jacchia 8. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Intermission 9. Fantasia, "Cavaleria Rusticana" Mascagni 10. Waltz, "Missouri" 11. Hungarian Dance No. 1 Brahms
...March. "Cruiser Harvard" Strube 2. Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven 3. Fantasia, "Alda" Verdi 4. College Songs Intermission 5. Baechanale from "Tannhauser" Wagner 6. Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky 7. Ave Maria Schuber-Wilhelmj (solo violin. Harp. Organ and strings.) 8. Fourteenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszi 9. Selection, "Rose-Marie" Frimi-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Tros Jolie" Waldteufel 11. American Fantasy Berbert
...Music, written by Conductor Ignatz Waghalter, smacks more of Puccini than of Sullivan, Offenbach or Johann Strauss. A sudden transition or two, a waltz emerging from a cantilena, a trio for three men in the first act, a machine-made quartet in the second-these were enlivening...