Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concertos & Jive. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is small (82 players), local (half of the musicians come from east Texas), young (average age: 30) and very enthusiastic over its new conductor. Though there is an impressive "Founded in 1901" at the top of its programs, the present orchestra is really only five years old: in 1945, after a wartime hiatus, Hungarian-born Antal Dorati (now conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony) reorganized it and made it for the first time a competent, nationally respected organization. Hendl has continued Dorati's tradition of introducing new works. With Rudolf Firkusny at the piano...
Walter Hendl first started waving his hands in front of an orchestra in 1939, when he won a Curtis Institute conducting fellowship with Fritz Reiner. In 1944 he was discharged from two years of Army service, during which he had led a dance band, the Jive Bombers. In the next year he wrote the music for a successful Broadway show, Dark of the Moon, and went to work as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Impressed by his work in New York, the trustees of the Dallas orchestra offered him their conductorship...
...White Lies, You're Driving Me Crazy, Boo-Hoo-and were still playing all of them the same old way. This year, the American Society of Teachers of Dancing thanked them with a Distinguished Service Scroll for consistently acting as a bulwark against "invasions by hordes of cynical jive extremists...
...Tubby the Tuba) Kleinsinger had the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill warbling his Brooklyn Baseball Cantata. Last week, all such pretenses of musical dignity were gone, but with two new tunes in their bat box, the National League's colorful Dodgers were slugging hard in the jump, jive and jukebox league...
...hostess at a birthday party for Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature, lent her celebrated lung power to help him blow out the candles. Later on, she let it be known that in a forthcoming movie she would take a fling at the role of Ophelia, in a strictly jive version of Hamlet. Sample lyrics, written for her by Frank (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) Loesser...