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...minutes later, it got to a huge, orgiastic orchestral climax, then resolved into a thoughtful epilogue. Overall, listeners heard more melody and less dissonance than they had come prepared to hear. Standout movement: a rhythmically terrific apotheosis of jazz, with Lennie himself at the piano, backed by bass fiddler and percussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lonely Music | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Tossy finds a few minutes to teach his blonde daughter Ruth, 10, his special brand of fiddling. But as for Ruth having a fiddler's career, Tossy says "too strenuous for a woman, at least our little woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Listen but Don't Look | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...withdrawn northward in a shower of garbage, Republicans staged a rally in industrial Kingsport, a G.O.P. stronghold in mountainous eastern Tennessee. Fourteen thousand people crowded into a parking lot and overflowed into the street. They were there to hear ex-National Chairman Carroll Reece, candidate for U.S. Senator, and Fiddler Roy Acuff, nominee for governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Eggs, Any Style | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...most convenient pigeonhole to describe Erica Morini: "The greatest woman violinist . . ." Others could excuse her sex but not forget it: "A great violinist-regardless of sex." But now, after 20 years of hearing her play, most were willing to take Erica as she wants to be taken-as a fiddler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sex Shouldn't Matter | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Pianist Earl Hines, Drummer Sid Catlett, Bull Fiddler Arvell Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Jumps | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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