Word: waltzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question, Cole says obliquely: "I figure somebody would like to see entertainment once in a while." Last week, with assists from skilled Arranger Nelson Riddle and Guest Frankie Laine, but mostly by just curling his voice around such tunes as Stay As Sweet As You Are and Shadow Waltz, Cole showed how entertaining a half-hour can be. But it is also serious business. "You know," he says, "if this show is successful, the other networks might even try to counterattack by putting other Negroes on opposite me. That's O.K. with me. Come to think of it, that...
...replica of the one in the White House. Truman tinkled out the Paderewski minuet and, for an encore, bravely riddled a Mozart theme with clinkers. Then, after a closing speech ("Learn all you can about the Government so you can continue this great republic of ours"), the Missouri Waltz welled up and Truman scurried downstairs to the basement control room to get the verdict on the show. The other pros greeted him with a burst of applause...
...oftener than every 15 minutes through the day and every half-hour in the evening. In between. WPAT. plays carefully chosen, well-groomed music, mostly the massed strings and muted brass of the Mantovani-Kostelanetz style, nothing more popular than show tunes or more classical than a Brahms waltz...
...International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry that made Lipatti one of the finest pianists of the postwar generation...
...Waltz That Broke My Heart (Gisele MacKenzie; Vik). Songstress Mac-Kenzie is sitting this one out, she tells the listener in her clear, unshaded voice, because the last time she attempted the waltz, it cost her that man. Her syrup-slow beat suggests that sheer lack of energy may have done...