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...program for Monday's concert includes several pieces of Sousa's own composition, among which are the famous "Liberty Bell," March and a new work, "Jazz America." In addition Miss Marjorie Moody, soprano, Mr. John Nolan, cornet, and Mr. George Cary, xylophone, will render solos. There will also be a jazz piece and selections from opera and light opera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUSA'S BAND TO GIVE CONCERT HERE MONDAY | 9/25/1925 | See Source »

...voted the most popular lad in his class at a Manhattan public school. Some of his waggish friends commented upon the strangeness of his popularity, for he was known to be an inveterate blower of his own trumpet. But it was his skill upon this trumpet, the cornet, that was responsible for his popularity, for his later success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Game | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...cornetist in the Metropolitan Opera House. After ten years with his orchestra, he resigned, has since become famed as a teacher, author, conductor, composer. He has written books on cornet playing. His best band compositions have been inspired by the preposition "On"-On the Green, On the Mall, On the Go. The American Indians, on the other hand, are responsible for such pieces as Cherokee, Sunapee, Sagamore, Eagle Eyes. Concerts given by his band in Manhattan parks and stadia have been remarkable for the perfect orderliness of the audiences. His organization has been called, "A Symphony Orchestra in Brass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Game | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

Artists. Miss M�ller, soprano, sang with a sincerity marred only by irrelevant smiles in certain love-scenes; Signer Lauri-Volpi (Gallurese) turned himself into a human cornet; Conductor Tullio Serafin imposed upon the wavering score his own electrifying power. At the close of each act, Montemezzi appeared before the curtain, bowed, smiled. On one of these occasions, a lackey delivered to him a floral wreath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Opera | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

Recently a young man in Portland, Oregon, under the impression that he too, could learn 'o play in thirty days, purchased what is called a cornet. Being more than commonly considerate, he took the instrument to a vacant lot, and there, behind sheltering bill boards, gave vent to his musical complex. Such was the reward of his virtue, however, that he was taken to the police station as a "suspicious person." The following morning a wise judge praised his thoughtfulness in not practicing where he would disturb the neighbors and sent him back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT LAST! AT LAST! | 2/26/1925 | See Source »

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