Word: horning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sunday, he secured a new album of Council Bluffs Classics by Blubber-mouth McDaniels, Happie Willsie, and Joe "Clarion" Hamilton. He returned to his room late Sunday evening after a long bull session with Harry "Alligator" Munroe '43 on the double-tonguing and the comparative merits of the French horn in Tallahassee style and played through his album, soaking in each hot lick, until three in the morning...
...dozen concerts a season. Half the orchestra is professional, and unionized, about one-third of it feminine (including Hine Brown's pretty, violin-playing wife). The players average $10 a concert, get nothing for rehearsals, and the union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop for a trim, was amazed at being asked some shrewd questions about phrasing in the concerto...
Radcliffe College, defending champion, was represented by Miss Elinor Horn and Miss Mary O'Keefe. Radcliffe turned in the lowest score this year, and finished in twelfth place...
...bombed. Without rich backers, orchestra members earn less than they did before the war; principals average $28 a week, "rank" players $16. But the men say their spines feel better. The Philharmonic now has a democratic constitution, is run by a committee composed of the Sub-Leader, First French Horn, Third Horn, Principal Trombone, Rank Viola. The Rank Viola-Thomas Russell -is secretary, too busy today to play in the orchestra. He used to carry the Philharmonic cash in a little black bag, now has a bank account. Since the barnstorming began, the orchestra has played music like Beethoven...
...finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty on "All That Meat and No Potatoes and Buckin' the Dice, latter including tenor sax by Gene Cedric. One of these days people are going to realize what a mean horn he plays (BLUEBIRD...