Word: song
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These themes appear in every conceivable mood during the sonata. The leaping octaves turn into a simple song, the march is played at half speed, decorated with trills, and, near the end, the two halves of the main theme are juxtaposed in a fugue. Of the four or five pianists I've heard perform this work, Horowitz is the only one who masters Liszt's runs of octaves and sixths enough to make the composer's intentions clear throughout. No matter how intricate the notes on top are, the lower levels are never blurred. In Liszt's day, probably...
...Maple Leaf Rag Song (1903) Ragtime began hypnotizing the nation about the time the Gay Nineties became gay, and it disappeared years before the Stanley Steamer and the suffragette. It might still be gone if it were not for the efforts of a Sedalia, Mo., piano peddler named John Stillwell Stark and an entertainer and pianist named Max Morath. Stark had the good sense to start publishing classic Negro rags like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag in 1899 when he was in late middle age; last year Morath, 36, began playing the rags on television-and has become...
...have rhapsodized about truffles and caviar, but few have been inspired to sing the praises of the lowly pea. One exception is Author Max (Barefoot Boy) Shulman, who has not only written a song about pea picking but speaks poetically of the peas' earthly journey toward "their succulent destinies." The reason for Shulman's enthusiasm is that while in college he worked as a pea picker for the Green Giant Co. of Le Sueur, Minn., where the pea is king. Green Giant is the U.S.'s largest canner of peas and corn, with 22 processing plants...
Only "Hold on Baby" saves the Twist and Shout album from total intellectual aridity. The song presents a character delineation next to which Hamlet pales by comparison. The speaker implores...
...song evolves from a tone of calm suggestion to one of a frantic plea. But after a highly evocative sexual passage--which cannot be transmitted to the printed page--he closes with almost defiant self-assertion...