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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...
...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 than white tie & tails would do. Since then, Harmonicist Adler has rarely performed with any more modest backing than a 30-piece band...
...Harmonicist Adler, by adroit sucking and blowing, along with skillful finger work, can make his mouth organ sound like a violin, oboe, French horn, trumpet. In this week's CBS show-Lip Service, on Norman Corwin's Workshop hour-he is an appallingly corny hillbilly who imitates the sounds of a train, swings part of a Mozart violin sonata, plays Bach and variations on Turkey in the Straw...