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...lead the Philharmonic Symphony for a week. Gushed effusive Concert Chairman Mrs. Charles S. ("Minnie") Guggenheimer of Monteux's reading of Beethoven's Fifth: "Simply magnificent! It wasn't at all like Beethoven!" The directors of Chicago's Ravinia Music Festival advertised a smooth combo to perform some trios by Schubert, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The lineup: Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Gregor Piatigorsky. Northwestern University promised to lend its applause by conferring honorary degrees on all three...
Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...
...Robb and Dave Key, the second combo, finished on the short end of a three set match...
...central part of the program suffered, for the Band was off the stage, and except for a brief triumph of the Hungry Five, a small combo that combined um-pahs with lumps and grinds things were pretty spotty. The Krokodiloes did well with "You Tell Her, I Stutter,: and "How'm I Doin'" was very good, partly because of the dancing of Mildred Blacklock. She was the high spot of the choral numbers: a consistently skillful dancer who adapted herself especially well to the cramped stage. The Cliff-Riffs of Radcliffe also sang; they were not cramped by the stage...
Withtman teams with Pratt, steadying the latter's flery game with his varied, cool attack. Brandt and Backe are the number one combo; Brandt hits, Backe saves the tough ones. The third duo of Ager and Bullard can dish up most any kind of shot from any position. Ager, once a baseliner, has surprised himself lately with net-work that he didn't know he had until Barnaby cajoled him into it. Bullard ties the climax shots onto Ager's game, and has lately been rounding out his play-which was formerly over-specialized...