Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patrons a lot of laughs and a good time last night with its annual presentation, this year entitled "Give, Baby, Give". The book was written by Richard Door, '36, Charles G. Hutter, Jr., '38, and James H. Legendre, Jr., '40; the lyricists were Hutter and Door, and the music by Robert Gibson and Stanley Shephard, the latter also conducting the orchestra...
...music is tuneful, if not outstanding, and the best songs are probably "That's the Girl For Me", "La Camarisita," a tango written and played by David S. Burt '40, and "A Fool Was I"; some of the best lyrics we have heard in any college show are those to "We Planned It That Way." Throughout the show, the choreography, though it sometimes descends to every man for himself, is amusing and particularly so in the finale to the First Act in which hirsute and be-gartered athletes disport themselves in the can-can; another outstanding number is a waltz...
...Jungle" is an almost exact carbon of the old Casa Loma arrangement; these are just a few of Mr. Clinton's attempts at being original. Benny Goodman imitates Count Basic; but at least he has the courtesy to put Basic's name down as the author of the music he is playing. Clinton does (and badly) Pine Top Smith's "Boogie Woogie Blues," and on the credit line in resplendent dignity is Larry Clinton. The band seems to reflect all this in its playing. It plays without any life, any dig. The soloists are all uniformly uninspired with the exception...
...main objection to this band is that it plays a stereotyped style of music, very often not original. By clever buildup and publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements...
Many individual departments made, gains. Geological Science doubled its concentrators in an increase from 13 to 26. With a slight increase of two men, Romance Languages made the only gain in Modern Languages. Chemistry, Physics, and Music showed substantial increases as well...