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...President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
...just could not keep his hands off the piano. When the family moved to a ranch house near Ione, southeast of Sacramento, the cowhands used to gather around evenings to listen to the boy play, and sometimes Dave's father would pick up his harmonica and with Dave run through every cowboy tune that they could think...
Today, Larry Adler is a paid-up member of the Los Angeles local, and widely recognized as a harmonica virtuoso. But he has had his political troubles, stemming from his famous libel suit against Hester McCullough, who tried to have him barred from a Greenwich, Conn, concert hall because she said he was associated with too many Red-front organizations. The case ended in a hung jury, but ever since then, Adler has had difficulty getting engagements in the U.S. He went to live in London with his English wife and three children (who are U.S. citizens). The British love...
Last week, for the third year in a row, Larry Adler played a new work, written for harmonica and orchestra, at one of London's Promenade Concerts (see above). It was Harmonica Concerto, Op. 46, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold. Its three movements were by turns rollicking, somber and flamboyant, and its playful use of percussion brought a roar of approval from the crowd. After that, Adler repeated another piece written for him, Vaughan Williams' Romance (first performed in 1951), the only work that London "prom" goers ever insisted on hearing twice...
Asked a newsman: Was Adler bitter about the U.S.? No, not about the U.S., only about some people, replied the harmonica Paganini. "I have a way of channelizing these things...