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...better if they confined their relationship to music and nothing else. So for two weeks they didn't speak to one another and didn't even look at each other. Folks used to travel all the way from Milwaukee just to see Boyce and Tut backing up to the bandstand from opposite sides at the beginning of each set, mouths grimly clamped as they groped their...
...Bandstand: Jimmy Dorsey...
...include the Duke among those who were disappointed with the Ellington engagement at the RKO Boston last week. That plushy platform which served as a bandstand might have looked dandy from out front, but it played hob with the section work. Dividing the brasses up with the trumpets on one side and the trombones on the other, putting the saxes in between, and splitting the rhythm section north, east, south, and west, all may have been artistically perfect, but it was acoustically lousy...
Most theatres have the bandstand mounted on rollers, so that it can come forward between the vaudeville acts. But not the RKO Boston. That jumble you heard was the music getting its feet tangled in the scenery. It's a pity, because the band sounded wonderful backstage. They ought to scrap the from part of the theatre and put the seats behind the band...
...swell his repertory, Goldman has composed 85 marches himself. Most popular of his marches is On the Mall. Written for the dedication of a new bandstand in Central Park, it so displeased Goldman that he shelved it. When he finally tried it out at an open-air concert, he directed with one hand, held his nose with the other. The roar of applause so surprised him that he nearly reeled off the stand...