Word: artic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About eight weeks ago, this column reported that Artic Shaw was going to be forced out of the music business. Last week Shaw apparently refuted this story by giving out a statement to the effect that he was sick and tired of the band business and was going to leave it of his own accord; that his income for the next year would have been around a quarter of a million dollars, but that he couldn't be bothered with such material things; and that therefore he was leaving for good. At this moment Shaw is somewhere in Texas with...
...gets away with a good imitation of Helen Morgan. . . Raymor Ballroom while inhabitated by jitterbugs and the like, has some good jazz in Les Brown's band. . . Roseland State Ballroom much the same type as the Raymor, this place also does pretty well with Tommy Reynold's an Artic Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music and quite acceptable swing. . . And don't forget that Jimmy Dorsey is playing the MIT Sophomore Prom tonight at the Copley Plaza...
Believe it or not, the above quotes are from an interview given Michael Mok of the New York Evening Post by clarinetist Artic Shaw...
...going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give up a prosperous livelihood, and too many like Tommy Dorsey and Artic Shaw who are so busy looking for the big money they don't have time to relax in their music or their personal manner...
...Scholars have acclaimed the literature of this handful of people living on an artic island as the greatest medieval literature extant before the appearance of Dante's writings," he said. He pointed out further that the Icelandic sagas are the last surviving purely Teutonic literature completely untouched by classic tradition or influence and that as such they are completely original products...