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Hundreds of dapper, middle-aged men buzzed around a spooky, blacked-out picture gallery in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. They were X-ray specialists, members of the American Roentgen Ray Society, who met last week to exhibit their art, discuss their progress...
Dvorak was the first symphonic composer to use U.S. Negro and Indian themes, which he usually Dvoraked into something pretty Czech. Still living is the man who gave him such tunes as Swing Low Sweet Chariot (used in the New World Symphony): Harry T. Burleigh, dapper, 75-year-old choir singer at Manhattan's St. George's Episcopal Church...
...Eastern cities and towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two years ago pronounced his jitterbug followers morons, declared that the music business stinks, and, consigning the whole shebang to hell, left his band, got out of his contracts, went off to Mexico...
...with the Pro Arte Quartet, which is attached to the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Jan. 27), has been playing in California this summer. The London quartet's last two violinists, tall John Pennington and deadpan Thomas W. Petre have been playing in cinema studio orchestras. Only dapper William Primrose had far to travel for the reunion-from Manhattan, where he is the NBC Symphony's crack viola player...
...music which dapper Conductor Herbert Zipper led his 86 Filipino musicians through last week had nothing remotely reminiscent of the rumble of a Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler...