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...music newspaper DOWNBEAT some very nasty socks were taken at me in a recent issue. In the issue of June 1st elaborate apologies are made...
...have just been assured over the long distance phone by Ned Williams, DOWNBEAT's Editor, that he would try to stop press and correct this error. However, against the chance that copies containing the error may reach the stands, I would appreciate a word in the CRIMSON clearing me of having made any such phony claim as to my Harvard scholastic record. Johnny Green...
Into the Pit. Some of the enthusiasm reached the pit. From the instant Conductor Reiner slashed the air with the downbeat, the Met's musicians plunged into the lush ripeness of Strauss's score like field mice set at fragrant cheddar. But little of the enthusiasm got through to the cast onstage...
...Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro, chord, and boogie-beat, Major, minor, jig, and waltz, Scherzo, downbeat, jazz, and smaltz, Jukebox, drumstick, and Puccini, Bassoons, batons and Toscanini...
...casual observer, but many orchestra musicians explain that the technique is an extremely illuminating one that assists them greatly in performing complicated rhythms or melodies, especially those encountered in modern works. At any rate, the musicians of the Boston Symphony will have no doubt when Munch gives his downbeat--something which cannot be said for his predecessor...