Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Rochester held its ninth Annual Festival of American Music. At festival's end patient Rochesterians had sat through so many new U. S. compositions, that they would have clutched 0 Sole Mio or Ach Du Lieber Augustin like a drowning man. Most-talked-about item of the series: a symphony by a 20-year-old post graduate Eastman student named Owen Reed. Some critics found Reed's brief, concise opus somewhat monotonous. Not so Director Hanson, who spoke of it with exuberant breath: "Comparison of Reed's work with Beethoven's can be made...
...with Harry ranking well up in the corn bass division. Goodman has added Artie Bernstein, one of the most experienced and best of the bass men around, and has replaced Irving with Corky Cornelius, who, while he plays just as loud as Irving did, has many more ideas . . . Next item of interest is that Bob Zurke is leaving Bob Crosby to form his own band and to record for Victor. While it's true that there was some friction between Bob and the other members of the band, readers must remember that the big booking agencies are getting grey hairs...
Probably for many readers the most interesting item on this varied bill of fare will be the apologia for Japan offered by Mr. Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. Mr. Suma presents a defense which is at once a cleverly wrought argument and an interesting indication of the official Japanese attitude...
Star of the band is the Ella, or "Tisket A Tasket" Fitzgerald. Ella, besides being a nice kid personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about...
When Racketbuster Tom Dewey last week wound up his biggest case, the most interesting item for New Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses...