Word: clarinet
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...secret, as Flanagan saw it, was "music you want to dance to-not wild and not icky. You might say I strive for music comparable to Saturday Evening Post art-no Carnegie Hall atmosphere." Victor called it "The Flanagan Flair." Actually, even down to a sweet clarinet leading the. saxophones in front of big but softly barking brass, it was more of a hark-back to the days of Glenn Miller...
...white chief of the Sigafoose Indians, Smith has traded in his lion tamer's suit for fringed buckskin, but still struggles manfully with such gadgets as the Plapdoodle and the Scopedoodle. To keep things moving he plays the piano, accordion, drums, organ, guitar, ukulele, string bass, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, trombone, tuba, and such novelty instruments as the tonette and slide whistle. He can also arrange music and imitate a bass fiddle...
...piano last month, he conducted the orchestra in the world premiere of Bohuslav Martinu's Piano Concerto No. j. This week, in an all-Strauss program, he presented the U.S. première of one of the late composer's last works, his Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Harp and Strings...
...season, in Cinderella, London saw the change. The Daily Express reported as soberly as it could: "At the end of the lovely pas de deux ... so tense was the audience that one could hear the trickle of the tiny stage fountain above the closing notes of the clarinet." Last April, after a gala performance for Queen Elizabeth, the Evening Standard described the new Fonteyn: "Discarding the steely glitter that has sometimes divorced her from our deepest affections, she danced with simplicity, great feeling and unrivaled grace...
...most there were 60 regular members during the years to 1929. Sometimes, however, improvisation was necessary. At one game, for instance, violins, borrowed from the dance orchestras, were brought into the stands to play missing clarinet parts...