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Boston Common will again ring with carols at 4:30 p.m. today when the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Social give their second joint Christmas carol concert of the year from the Parkman Bandstand. The singing, sponsored by the Boston Christmas Festival, will last for about 30 minutes...
...program will consist of the regular music listening hour, along with four half-hour shows of popular music, and the "Bandstand...
...last week Baritone Monroe had long since given up his operatic ambitions, was churning out strictly "what was called for." From the bandstand of the heavily upholstered Café Rouge in Manhattan's Statler Hotel, he beamed handsomely at the biggest crowds the nitery had ever seen, contentedly mooed the season's ballads in a domesticated baritone. Behind him were 23 dapper and earnest young men, a quintet of well-groomed young women carefully schooled to furnish a plush vocal cushion for what has been called everything from "The Voice with Hair on its Chest" to the "Million...
...certainly most pathetic are the scenes showing the girl who was chosen to lead the band as it played the rhythms to which the whole camp marched; during all the thousand crimes which the Nazis committed to the tune of her music, she had to stand alone on her bandstand without flinching...
When Artie's boys began unraveling Ravel's Piece en Forme de Habanera, the crowd around the bandstand applauded politely, but even the most ardent jitterers had to stop dancing. Cried one in petulant exasperation: "Artie, you stink...