Word: kostelanetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lily Pons, with her husband, Andre Kostelanetz, on the podium, was once more the summer's best draw, had six major engagements, attracted 60,000 people to Milwaukee's Washington Park, where an orchestra shell was donated by retired Brewer Emil Blatz. Pianist Alec Templeton and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad trailed her, with five dates each. Flagstad drew 225,000 to Grant Park, 20,000 to Manhattan's Stadium, but only 3,000 on a hot night in Philadelphia's Dell. Oscar Levant's fame in Information Please is paying out. He had four engagements, drew...
...style that I've heard since his One Hour with Red McKenzie eleven years ago. But Hawk agreed with me that the stuff today is, definitely not relaxed or sincere like it used to be, to wit: Count Basie's rough house rhythm, Jimmy Dorsey's twittering saxophone, and Kostelanetz's weeping violin cadenzas. He went on to say that he reads my column faithfully every week and shows it around Gotham, where they're beginning to realize that Harvard guys have really got the stuff after...
Records: Old times return. Artie Shaw has made a new record for Victor with his new 32 piece band. Announced as "something entirely new", this is a poor copy of the Andre Kostelanetz style of dance arranging which Kostelanetz has been doing for the last five years. It may be just coincidence that Shaw used to work in Kostelanetz's clarinet section. Only original note is the hot clarinet against a string background. But even this Shaw did three years ago with his first band (see "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" for an example. Brunswick.), so that once...