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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years (1935-38) Clarinetist Goodman retained his crown. But by last spring a lusty group of pretenders was after it. Chief among them - was a youngster named Artie Shaw. Last March, while King Goodman and Pretender Shaw fought a battle of music in Newark, N. J. (TIME, March 6), a brand-new band was drawing some discriminating New Jersey jitterbugs to the Meadowbrook Club in neighboring Cedar Grove. Leading it was Ben Pollack's old trombonist, Glenn Miller...
...first Miller's was rated as just another good swing band. But last summer, when it moved to Westchester's Glen Island Casino, things began to happen. Within five months Glenn Miller's band was causing more rug-dust to fly, making more phonograph records, and playing more radio dates than Goodman and Shaw together. Last month the Chesterfield Hour conferred swing's Pulitzer Prize on Miller by signing him up to take Paul Whiteman's place, beginning Dec. 27. Last week Trombonist Miller, now undisputed King of Swing, went back to play a week...
...such second-grader is athletic, tooth-brush-mustached William Primrose, who plays the principal viola part in Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony. Last week Primrose temporarily added himself to the world-famed Budapest Quartet (TIME, Nov. 13) to play quintets for Manhattan's persnickety New Friends of Music...
...Last week a few lark-notes of new-style Russian music were heard in the U. S.: the overture to an opera, Gulsara, by Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere, veteran Soviet composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory. No streamlined Eastern orchestra gave it its first U. S. hearing, but the wide-awake, six-year-old Kansas City Philharmonic under cigar-puffing U. S. Conductor Karl Krueger. Conductor Krueger's first cellist, Frank Sykora, onetime pupil of Composer Gliere, had wangled the manuscript out of Russia. An audience of 2,500 Kansas Citizens turned out to hear the overture, and agreed...
...field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto Anderson's laurels. The voice was Dorothy Maynor's (TIME, Aug. 21), plump, Norfolk-born daughter of a Methodist minister, who had been studying for several...