Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHRV's 48-hour jazz orgy which ended yesterday inspired two students to engage in a listening duel...
Starting the contest at 7 p.m. Monday when the orgy began, Richard P. Miller '49 and Richard E. Harrington '47 bore up until just a half hour before the jazz gave way to Bach last night. At that time Miller, with a 37 and a half hour total, conceded to Harrington, who had a 44-hour, 20-minute record. The victor's prize will be all the hour he can drink at one sitting...
...with his Manhattan misfortunes "over the dam," Conductor Barbirolli says, "I'm on top of the world." He likes Manchester: "There is not much social life. It gives you time to work." He concentrates on young people, tries to convince them "that it's jazz that's sissy and the real he-man stuff is Beethoven and Bach." One-third of his audiences are 18 or under. Says Barbirolli: "If Frank Sinatra can have his bobby-sox brigade...
Calculated to exceed last spring's music migration both in length and variety, WHRV's jazz orgies open tonight. A jazz session will run until Wednesday, when a 24-hour cycle of Bach and contemporaries takes over...
...also feels that the U.S. has been made "clarinet conscious" by some of the "other kind" of tootlers, e.g., Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. "What the jazz boys have done with the clarinet," says Kell, "is colossal." Goodman was one of the first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session...