Mary Fletcher, Cumbernauld A
Humoresque (1946) was based on the novel by Fannie Hurst and starred Joan Crawford at her best.
He regarded it as a lighter work than its predecessors, calling it his
Humoresque.
They accent, punctuate, and lend an element of the
humoresque to the story.
Body and Soul (as well as Garfield's version of
Humoresque, made a year earlier) revisits the Jewish family archetypes that were depicted in these early silent films; Patricia Erens defines these as "the Stern Patriarch, the Prodigal Son, the Rose of the Ghetto ...
Over the coming decades, David Allison's penchant for the
humoresque would manifest itself repeatedly in California schools and colleges.
Paganini's La Campanella and Dvorak's
Humoresque No.7 are both played wonderfully, but listen out for Odnoposoff performing the devilishlydifficult Perpetuum Mobile and Heifetz's verson of Hora Staccato.
I must admit that the less-known pieces come off best, the Symphonic Synthesis of Boris Godunov, Tchaikovsky's
Humoresque and Solitude, and, especially, Stokowski's own Traditional Slavic Christmas Music.
Among the anthology's most striking literary selections are Aaron Zeitlin's poem, "The Gallego," in which he contemplates the legacy of the Inquisition; "An Engagement Dinner," Rosa Palatnik's setting of middle-class Brazilian Jewish life in the Fifties; and the Mexican writer Meir Corona's mildly satirical
humoresque "Quite a Bank." Pinye Wald's "Nightmare" is a chilling and riveting memoir of the "Tragic Week" of January 1919, when the Argentine government ruthlessly suppressed--often with antisemitic overtones--a series of labor demonstrations and strikes.
V by Samuel Scheidt, Pavane by Gabriel Faure, "The Casbah of Tetouan" by Kerry Turner, Antonin Dvorak's
Humoresque and G.F.
QUITE why Robert Schumann called his Opus 30 a
Humoresque is a bit of a mystery, for this is anything but the skittish caprice that the title might imply.