Word: afros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, the best critics in the house-the orchestra members-cheered him. Glowed Dunbar: "They're wonderful. Boy, I could drink five gallons of beer!" Some in the audience, accustomed to Brahms and Wagner, found the cacophony of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony a little hard to take. So did some in the audience at Hollywood Bowl last week. But they were impressed by the conservative and competent way he handled Weber's tried & true overture to Oberon, Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico...
Symphonic Showman. Last week Cugat, who is now a paunchy 46, signed a contract to play an eight-week symphonic concert tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban, bolero, and conga). If the tour pans out, he plans to give up nightclubs altogether. For the trip, Cugat will add a dozen violins, two cellos, two violas and two basses to his regular nightclub assortment of 32 marimba, maracas, fiddles and horns...
...warmly when the conductor led the orchestra through Weber's familiar Oberon and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. They broke into cheers, and called him back five times, when he gave them Berlin's first hearing of fellow-Negro William Grant Still's boisterous, bluesick Afro-American Symphony...
Nevertheless, Dunbar quickly satisfied the music critics who counted: the orchestra members. Said the first flutist, after Dunbar had led the men through Afro-American: "Now at last I understand your American jazz." Dunbar further won the orchestra's friendship by bringing from Paris a contrabassoon (the orchestra had lost all theirs in air raids...
...Afro-American chain of Negro newspapers (Baltimore, Washington, Newark, Philadelphia, Richmond, circ. 208,835) came out for Tom Dewey because: 1) "the abuse and Jim Crow of the 800,000 colored soldiers ... is shocking and heart-sickening"; 2) "a fourth term would set a precedent that . . . may in the future become tragic for a minority"; 3) 16 years as President "is beyond the physical strength...