Word: harmonicas
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Most of the night he sat up trying to tease a tune from his four-year-old son's harmonica. Annoyed when he couldn't he went out next day, bought a 10? book on harmonica playing. Thus Painter Thomas Hart Benton started on his music-making hobby. He bought more manuals, tootled away for hours when it was too dark to paint...
Before long his painting students were bringing their harmonicas to his Manhattan studio. For those who couldn't read notes he worked out a special harmonica notation system. He dug up 17th Century music from libraries. On walking trips through the hills of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, he learned tunes from fiddlers and singers, copied others from old hymn books...
...muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone...
...played his mouth organ. "In the theater I have my audience and am inspired," she said. "There was no inspiration performing for an audience of one. ... I would be crying, but all he would say was: 'Take it off! Take it off!' ': Of Price's harmonica style she declared: "It stifled me." -/ As Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, Negro flier-of-fortune, waved good-by to his wife Essie in front of her Harlem apartment, a process server thrust into his surprised hand papers notifying him of her suit against him for separation. She asked...
...dark, wiry, bug-eyed Larry Adler, son of a Baltimore plumber, won a harmonica contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun. He shrewdly sized up the judges as serious musicians, played a Beethoven minuet instead of the popular tunes submitted by other contestants. Mouth Organist Adler went to Manhattan, at 16 played a bit in Flo Ziegfeld's Smiles, became a protégé of Eddie Cantor, whom he slightly resembled. In his early stage turns, Larry Adler wore ragamuffin garb, a conventional uniform for harmonicists. But after C. B. Cochran took him to London in 1934 nothing less...