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Last week Stan Kenton, a modernist bandleader whose arrangements blend boppish bounce with blood-curdling dissonances, prepared for his Paris debut with understandable misgivings. But when concert time came, the theater was very nearly filled. When the curtain rose, friendly applause swept up from the audience, and Dixieland partisans, if any, behaved themselves. Kenton & Co. gave them a program of tightly orchestrated originals, emphasizing in turn their lush reeds and knife-edged brasses. After listening to such Kenton favorites as Collaboration, Opus in Pastels, 23 North, 82 West (the coordinates of Havana), the crowd whooped "Bis! Bis!" Said Kenton...
...Kenton and his progressives had thoughtfully scheduled Paris as the climax of a triumphant month's tour of the Continent. Earlier, from Scandinavia to Switzerland, they had given 27 concerts in 27 days. In Copenhagen some 10,000 fans stomped their approval so hard that Kenton & Co. began to fear for the floor. Amsterdam fans called them mieters (current Dutch slang for terrific). In Miinster admirers rioted for autographs...
...boss, Kenton R. Cravens, whose agency will probably be replaced next year by a bureau making loans to small businesses only, is running things as if RFC were already going out of business. He has fired 477 staffers, laid down a rigid stipulation that a defense contractor can get an RFC loan only with a certificate that the Government has first tried-and failed-to buy from a firm that does not need a loan. Result: loans have dwindled from ten or 15 a week...
...Nominated Kenton R. Cravens, St. Louis banker and longtime friend of Treasury Secretary Humphrey, to be head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Cravens' mission will be to bury the RFC by June 1954, transfer its shrunken functions to the Commerce Department...
City of Glass (Stan Kenton; Capitol LP). Somebody obviously threw a stone at this musical city; it is full of prismatic rubble and glittering shards of sound. But its four movements are among the best of Kenton's symphonic experiments, frequently stimulating (some of them closely related to such modern symphonists as Roger Sessions), and played with a virtuosity that a symphony orchestra might envy...