Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert Ammons, the boogie-woogie swing pianist, and Roy Eldridge, New York's famous trumpeter, who flew up form Manhattan specially for the affair, gave the Yardling masses a taste of Harlem's "hot" music...
...program of light music by the pierian Sodality of 1808, under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, and a group of songs by the Gold Coasters Glee Club, assisted by members of the Radcliffe Choral Society, were the attractions of an Adams House concert last night...
...problem of program-planning has received much publicity of late, with musicians and critics agitating strenuously for an expansion of repertoires to bring to light some of the vast literature of undeservedly neglected music. This is a question of greatest importance to the musical public, for music is unique among the arts in its inaccessibility. Only a few highly trained musicians can read scores with as much pleasure as they get from a performance, and though recorded music has provided us with a few musical musecums, actual performances are still the chief means of bringing music to life...
After a bit of sweet music by Jack Hill and his band of eight Harlemites, Chairman Kuhn started the ball rolling by introducing the master of ceremonies, George C. MacKinnon, a columnist for the "Record" and prominent song writer...
...type of concerts which we shall hear is determined by the taste of the audiences and of the musicians themselves. Public attitude may vary from open-mouthed admiration of technical flash and display which considers music a medium for vocal and instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection...