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Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 23, 1945 | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...scientific method" of music composition, he hit it just right. The harassed jazz composers and arrangers on the frenzied production lines of Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and the radio studios were looking for somebody just like him. George Gershwin became a steady customer; so did his buddy, Oscar Levant. Soon many able musicians (Jesse Crawford, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke) were juggling rhythms and harmonies into endless combinations. Long-haired music schools eschewed Schillinger and all his works: their students had plenty of time to court the muse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rhythmic Engineering | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Levant, good friend and semi-official interpreter of Gershwin, turns out a workmanlike Concerto in F with the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York (Andre Kostelanetz conducting; Columbia, 6 sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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