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...content with this success story, she signed up last fall to sing popular songs with Frank Sinatra on Light-Up Time (weekdays, 7 p.m. E.D.T., NBC). Last week, with Sinatra suffering from a sore throat, Dorothy Kirsten took over as M.C. of the show. "I'm a long-hair with shorthair moments," she explains. "People forget that I learned how to swing before I learned the classics...
Bandleader Artie Shaw had tried feeding long-hair music to shorthair audiences (in Manhattan's Bop City-TIME, April 25) and wound up, at least figuratively, "with egg on my face." But he had learned a lot: "Let's face it, I was being pretty rigid...
...effect of sixty ponderous brasses proclaiming Bach chorales seems a little foreign. The same situation in reverse came up several years ago when the Boston Symphony recorded "stars and Stripes Forover" and did a creditable job but might better have left such undertakings to the Harvard Band. To do long-hair (and that portion of the program was not limited to Bach) in such fine style, however, is a feather in the car of any military band. Perhaps the best of these "straight" numbers was the Suite in E Flat for Military Band, by Gustav Holst, which was played with...
...hefty Editor (since 1945) Perry Githens. Githens had sharpened the magazine's words-&-pictures technique, shoved the gadget and how-to-do-it sections toward the back of the book. Says Githens: "Science is now everybody's business. We're not as lofty as the long-hair journals, but we're a lot more readable...
Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, maestro of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, familiarized himself with the instruments of a Red Cross mobile blood-collecting unit. Touring Minnesota with the unit between concerts, he sometimes doffed the rubber gloves of an orderly to draw crowds with his piano playing-both long-hair and boogie-woogie...