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...last week the Soviet government seemed ready to give up the fight. Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khatchaturian admitted a personal preference for the "modern music'' of Duke Ellington. In Soviet Culture, organ of the Culture Ministry, Bandmaster Leonid Utesov made it almost official: ''Jazz is not a synonym for imperialism, and the saxophone is not a product of colonialism." There is no reason why the Soviet Union should consider jazz decadent and bourgeois, said Utesov. "Socalled Dixieland existed in Odessa prior to New Orleans...
Friday: The Harvard-Princeton joint GLEE CLUB CONCERT will be held at 8:30 p.m. From 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., the PRINCE-TIGER DANCE featuring the bands of Duke Ellington, Lester Lanin, and Red Prysock, will take place in the Dillon Gymnasium--the post is $10 per couple...
Twelve lettermen, led by captain and top scorer Larry Holden, make the Big Green one of the deepest teams in the League. The Indians are sure of a balanced scoring attack when twin brothers Hugh and Stu Johnson are at left and right inside. Duke Ellington is an experienced, if not particularly agile, netminder...
...Although Ellington started discussing his suite with Festival Manager Jimmy Lyons three years ago, he did not get down to serious work until this summer. He then called up Lyons and asked a few pointed questions: "I don't remember the book too well-any jive going on? Is there some jungle [i.e., conflict]? There's gotta be some sweetness and fruit." With the plot straight in his mind, the Duke sat down and dashed off a four-part suite with typically cryptic subtitles: Miss Fits Blues, Schwiphti, Zweet Zurzday, Lay-By. "That last," explained the Duke...
...piece itself proved to be considerably less intriguing than the titles. Typical Ellingtoniana, when he tries for concert length, it called for extensive improvisation by the band, was liberally laced with the subtle tone colors, the shifting moods that Ellington too often uses as a substitute for invention. High point was a lovely, fluid violin solo by Ray Nance that brought cries of "No, no!" from an audience that did not want it to end. Said Ellington in explanation of one part of his piece: "It has not only to do with changing of the colors and the octopi...