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Wesleyan lost Carl La Rue '53 to Cambridge for some courses in the Music Department here, and Patrick Hemingway '52, another Stanford man and a Fine Arts major, thinks "there are more pictures in Boston than in Palo Alto...
...PAUL BRINK Palo Alto, Calif...
...performance of the Magnificat was the most consistently enjoyable event of the evening. The soloists: Eleanor Davis, Eunice Albert, Paul Tibbets, and Hughes Cuenod were all excellent although Cuenod faltered somewhat in high passages. The alto section was rather weak, but the chorus as a whole sang precisely and well. Their singing showed thorough preparation...
Several individual performances in the Magnificat deserve especial mention. Daniel Pinkham's playing of the harpsichord continue was very line, while, despite a few precarious moments, Gerard Gouguen negotiated the high trumpet part quite successfully. The most satisfying section for me was the aria for alto, "Esurientes implevit bonis." Miss Albert's singing and the flute playing of Howard Brown and Norton Gettes were outstanding...
...idea of giving a swing concert in Carnegie Hall. He bought his first set of tails. To be on the safe side, he buttressed his band with some special soloists: Negro Pianist-Composer William ("Count") Basie, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett; and from Duke Ellington's band, Soprano and Alto Saxman Johnny Hodges, Baritone Saxer Harry Carney, Trumpeter Cootie Williams...