Word: musically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...with mobile recording units. From 1½ hours of interviews in Koto, Murrow & Friendly culled a 21-second spot for Hear It Now: for other stories. CBS network stations sent mobile units up to the Canadian border and deep into the backwoods of South Carolina. Shying away from the musical "stings" that usually embellish radio documentaries, Hear It Now employs instead such topflight composers as David Diamond and Lehman Engel to supply unobtrusive incidental music...
Landon helped form the "Haydn Society of the United States" when he was just out of college in 1946. The society managed to get some special programs of Haydn's music performed on a Boston radio station, but not much more. In 1949, Landon formed the "Haydn Society Inc.," and really started to roll...
Bless You All (music & lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach; produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith) is sometimes pleasant but never for long. Virtually everyone connected with it has more to boast of than the show itself. It's brightly colored but badly tended; the whole thing needs weeding, even the better things need watering. It looks about as a Broadway revue should look-perhaps in New Haven-three weeks before it opens on Broadway...
Helen Tamiris' dances-and Valerie Bettis' dancing-are highly professional but not unusual. Harold Rome's music is uniformly unhaunting, but once or twice his lyrics are really bright-as in Little Things Meant So Much to Me, where a wife, in the process of bricking up her husband's body, itemizes the irritations that drove her to murder...
...Make an Opera (music by Benjamin Britten; book & lyrics by Eric Crozier; produced by Peter Lawrence and the Show-of-the-Month Club), which closed at week's end, was half harrowingly cute, half harmlessly dull. At the start, some children and their elders decide to produce an opera, using the audience for chorus. While the cast rehearses in "the school auditorium," Musical Director Norman Del Mar flirtatiously coaches the onlookers through various songs-one of which turns the audience into owls, chaffinches and turtledoves. After that, the opera itself-a period tale about a chimney sweep-is performed...