Word: korn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan police court, the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and something that looked like an inverted spittoon." Testified Melchior: some musicians, like Wagner, are simply ahead of their time. He assured the judge that to his sensitive ear, the Korn Kobblers were "expressing themselves in true American folk music...
...Copyright Editorial Julio Korn, Buenos Aires; sole agents, Edward B. Marks Music Corp. Radio City, New York...
...drop off to sleep before two o'clock, however, there is something to be heard almost every night. Within the past two weeks, for instance, I have, through adroit manipulation of the dials, found Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jay McShaun, not to mention some people called the Six Korn Kobblers who had a good muted trumpet in their midst...
Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major (Alumni Orchestra of the National Orchestral Association, conducted by Richard Korn; Victor; 7 sides; $4). Genial, wood-windy Brahms, notable for having no fiddles. A top-notch first recording...