Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, when Kindler was ill, Mitchell got his first chance to conduct the National Symphony, made an able understudy's success. His appointment made Washington's the eighth major orchestra in the U.S. (among 25 with budgets of $100,000 or more) with an American-born musician in the conductor's post...
...slender, 6 ft. 3 Tony Lavelli shoot baskets. He was as far from the old "Pudge" Heffelfinger mold in Yale athletes as was tiny footballer Albie Booth. For one thing, he was apt to be shy in a crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could flick basketballs through hoops better than anybody in the collegiate game...
Speaking from the viewpoint of the musician, Merrit remarked that if the artist "really wanted to reach the masses, he would go into singing commercials." The artist has the most opportunity in a democratic state, he added...
...best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their bow to Louis. Says Drummer Krupa: "No band musician today on any instrument, jazz, sweet, or bebop, can get through 32 bars without musically admitting his debt to Armstrong. Louis did it all, and he did it first...
...Musician Today." So far as the U.S. public was concerned in the '20s, there were a good many other ways of playing jazz. Paul Whiteman, with his 30-piece band and his smooth arrangements of Tin Pan Alley hit tunes and minor classics (The Song of India), was "King of Jazz," and his music and records were far better known than the small-band New Orleans variety. But after Louis arrived in Manhattan in 1924, and persuaded Fletcher Henderson to let him "open up" on his horn at Broadway's Roseland Ballroom one night, jazz musicians...