Word: hirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Band has produced several well known musicians, including John Green '28 and George Thow '29, but the most famous of former bandsmen is Leroy Anderson '29. Anderson is one of America's more successful jazz composers, and his "Bugler's Holiday" has been recorded by everyone fromAl Hirt to the Boston Pops. Anderson directed the Band for six years during the period 1929-1936, and wrote original marches for the Band for years afterwards...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Eddy Arnold hosts the first of six variety shows entitled Country Fair. His guests this week: Al Hirt, Joanie Sommers and John Byner...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Musicians Al Hirt and Pete Fountain, Singer Lana Cantrell and Dancer Peter Gennaro in New Orleans for "Mardi Gras...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of New Orleans," featuring Trumpeter Al Hirt and Pete Fountain with his clarinet; the jazz museum with its own living legend, Guitarist Danny Barker; and the inevitable Young Tuxedo Brass Band on the way to the cemetery...
...elimination of these solos was all the more puzzling because the soloists did begin to sing in "Ich bin ein guter Hirt." Marsha Vleck, soprano; Jane Struss, contralto; Karl Dan Sorensen, tenor, and Francis Hester, bass, all sang clearly and sensitively, and, like the chorus, without any heaviness or pretension. Sorensen was especially fine, floating without apparent effort over long lines almost continuously in his highest register. Hester was stronger in "Ihr Menschen" than in "Ich bin ein guter Hirt," in which there were moments when he was almost covered by the orchestra. Penelope Ann Colwell and Cynthia Weinrich...