Word: ciribiribin
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Gerald Wilfring Gore is a prolific arranger of music who for years made a modest living turning out choral adaptations of such varied works as Home on the Range, Pestalozza's Ciribiribin, William Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus. Last week, in Manhattan's Caspary Auditorium, a crowd of musical professionals gathered to honor Arranger Gore on his 75th birthday. But the man who rose to take a shy bow at concert's end was known to the audience not as Gerald Gore but as Composer Wallingford Riegger...
...makes a taxpayer wonder if ballet lessons are now part of boot training. The dialogue offers few surprises. "I worship the ground you walk on," says Tony Martin. "Now he's talking real estate," says Ann Miller. The songs are old too. Somebody even sings a cheery, beery Ciribiribin. And yet, the picture is not without an esthetic quality: it contains a splendid shot of the Golden Gate bridge...
Coco, like many a musical amateur, forgets how the songs go after the first phrases. The tricky grace note in the eighth bar of the drinking song from Traviata stops him every time; he pauses, squawks angrily, and switches to his favorite tune, Ciribiribin. Between arias, he amuses himself by watching for a pretty girl to come in, then gives a long, deliberate wolf whistle. If the girl's escort looks angrily around, Coco screams with laughter...
...They carried her from her Slabtown, Tenn. home to musical comedy, to opera, to Hollywood and back to opera and the concert stage. Last week her ears were still ringing with the cheers of some 4,000 fans in Copenhagen's biggest concert hall, where she had sung Ciribiribin. "When the Iron Curtain descends on my voice," she had said, "I would like to be appointed Minister to Denmark." Meanwhile, there were more concerts to be given, a sick husband (ex-Movie Actor Valentin Parera-once called the "Ronald Colman of Spain") to be nursed back to health...
...Gypsy John," Clay, arranged by Page Dartmouth Glee Club. SECOND PART. 7. "In the Shadows," Herman Fink Harvard Mandolin Club. 8. "Breeze of the Night," Lamothe Harvard Glee Quartet. 9. "The Pickanninies Gone to Sleep," Johnson Dartmouth Glee Club. 10. Overture "Mosaic," Arranged by Lansing Dartmouth Mandolin Club. 11. "Ciribiribin," Pestalozza Harvard Glee Club. 12. a The Dartmouth Song, Segur '92 b "Fair Harvard," Gilman 1811 Dartmouth and Harvard Glee Clubs...