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Word: harmonicists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week CBS presents a radio play written around an instrument on which millions of small boys make the air horrible-a mouth organ. This harmonica is tootled with utmost purity by Larry Adler, at 27 the world's greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harmonicist Adler | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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