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In the politically violent land of Cuba there is often some doubt as to who, exactly, is writing the laws. But there is never any doubt as to who is the chief songwriter in that melodious land. He is Ernesto Lecuona. He wrote the famed, romantic air which outsiders could...
Last week, armed with the title of Cultural Attaché of the Cuban Embassy, solid, swarthy Ernesto Lecuona was rushing around Manhattan doing a number of things no diplomat had ever done before. He had just signed one of the biggest song-publishing contracts ever negotiated on Broadway. He had...
Even if it means sitting in the last row of the second balcony, here is one show that shouldn't be missed. Gershwin's rich portrayal of American Negro life, while bearing as little resemblance to real conditions and problems facing the black man in the United States as "Alice...
By last week the flood of camp-meetin' melody, which had been rising steadily in juke joints and on radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley. Big names in the drawling art of country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff...
The Glee Club under the direction of Harold Schmidt opened the concert with "Let Your Celestial Concerts All Unite" from the oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" by George Frederick Handel, rendered with the usual precision but without the usual roundness of tone. In the second number, "Gentle Johnny", and English folk song...