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Although they have only 28 instruments for 64 members, Ferenbaugh liberated the bandsmen from KP duty and other rear-area chores, ordered them to spend all their time making music-in the front lines whenever possible. The band's headquarters were moved up from the rear to a forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Star Dust In the Mountains | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Southern Californians complacently call Los Angeles TV "probably the nation's worst." Houston stars "Texas Ruby" whose hymn-singing draws top program mail. TV screens in the South and West resound with hillbilly music; in the Midwest, with quizzes; in the East, with teenage showoffs-sometimes talented, but more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: They'll Look at Anything | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Oklahomans were sorry to see Alessandro go. After studying in Rome and Salzburg, he had headed back to the Southwest. At 22, he had taken the WPA-supported Oklahoma State Symphony in hand, built it into a self-supporting outfit (with 4,500 subscribers) that any state could be proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Texan to San Antonio | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

As a girl, France's Queen Marie Antoinette took music lessons from Composer Christoph Gluck, may have tried her hand at composing herself. One little number, Chanson de Marie Antoinette, based on a melody supposedly by the Queen, has long been part of the standard vocal repertory. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

These orgies, held during each reading period, were begun in 1940. So far classical music from pre-Bach to modern has been featured, but starting Friday, bop, jazz, hillbilly, and opera take the spotlight.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Orgy Goes On | 1/11/1951 | See Source »

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