Word: alto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NEWS AND REW RELEASES. The Count's latest: Blues featuring Lester Young's tenor sax pyrotechnics, a vocal by Jimmy Rushing, and an Earl Warren alto chorus backed by clean muted brass. Reverse, The Apple Jump, is graced by a very delicate Basic piano solo (OKEH) ... Best Five O'clock Whistle of the week is by Will Bradley (COLUMBIA). Ray McKinley and Doc Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement...
...must to all men, change of voice came to Tommy Dix, but earlier than to most: when he was n. He was then singing alto in the Trinity Church choir. At Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, where he won a four-year scholarship, Tommy Dix was president of his class, president of the Science Club, captain of the fencing team. Two summers ago, because his widowed mother was ill, he left school, "to commercialize on whatever talent...
Minneapolis, Dallas, and Palo Alto are the gridiron capitals of the nation today. The Golden Gophers are favored to bottle up Tom Harmon; the S.M.U. Mustangs will once more prove the rule that no team can ever win the Southwestern title two years in a row by upsetting the Texas Aggies; and Washington will win the Western Rose Bowl assignment by tripping up the Stanford Indians...
...University of Delaware '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; David K. Robinson, of Royal Oak, Mich., A. B. Princeton '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; James M. Wilson Jr., of Tilton, Ga., A. B. Emory University '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; Enno R. Hobbing, '40, of Reading, Pa., Herbert Parker scholarship; and Robert W. Putnam, of Palo Alto, Calif., A. B. Stanford University '40, Theophilus Parsons scholarship...
Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D major: Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," presented with the Simmons College Glee Club and with Janie Steinseld '43, alto, and Hedwig Miehle '41, soprano, as soloists; Bach's "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott" arranged and conducted by Ellis Kohs 1G; the Purcell Dance Suite with solo flute, Gabriel Jackson '42; and Beethoven's Overture to Prometheus comprise the program...