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...Brother Adolf Busch, violinist (citizen of Switzerland), led his Little Symphony through four of Handel's Concerti Grossi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his orchestra: wife Frieda (clarinet), daughter Irene (violin), brother Hermann, onetime first cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic (cello...
Sunday night, from 7:15 to 8 o'clock, there will be a concert, in which members of the house will participate. Francois G. Leydet '48, pianist, will play the Chopin "Revolutionary Etude" and the Mozart "Fantasia." Mozart's Clarinet Concerto will be performed by Don Mishara '46, accompanied by Nicholas Van Slyck Occ. An original work by Van Slyek, "Sonats for Trumpet and Piano", will be played by the composer and Hugh L. Whitehouse...
Died. Béla BartÓk, 64, prolific Hungarian composer of piquant, sometimes cacophonous orchestral and chamber music; longtime student of Magyar and Yugoslav folk music; after long illness; in Manhattan, his home since 1940. A radical modernist, BartÓk in 1938 wrote Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin especially for his friend Joseph Szigeti's violin and Benny Goodman's rippling clarinet...
...other day I ran into Johnny Field, who played bass with Bill Davison's all star crew at the Ken in 1943. Personnel included the late Rod Cless, clarinet, James P. Johnson, plan, Kaiser Marshall, drums, Sandy Williams, trombone, and Bill himself on cornet...
...Sunday and stayed for a few weeks. Three or four Pepsi's flavored by the smoky atmosphere were sufficient to send Mr. Russell to dreamland, so the drummer invested in a small bell which gave with resonance when tapped by a drum stick. When it was time for the clarinet sole, the bell was hit, and PeeWee would come out of his trance for the required chorus...