Word: musicianly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last word . . . superb musician . . . we're all very happy." Said new Conductor Münch himself in tentative English: the orchestra was "good," the enthusiasm from the audience "difficile" to explain...
...Manhattan's Town Hall a few blocks from the Lombardos (see above), an older and more fabled musician was celebrating too. For 74-year-old Léon Rothier, whose bass had boomed through three decades at the Metropolitan Opera, it was just 50 years since his debut at Paris' Comedie Française...
...defection of kid brother Victor, who quit playing saxophone with the Royal Canadians three years ago to get up his own band, was just about the most disturbing thing since the secession of the South. In a way, all of the band members are in the family. If one musician dislikes a new song, out it goes, even if Tunesmith Carm (Coquette, Boo-Hoo) wrote...
...Skater Bobby Blake was no musician. But when Blake tootled a couple of notes on the clarinet to set the mood for his act in Holiday on Ice, James Caesar Petrillo soaked him $17 for a card in his A.F.L. American Federation of Musicians. Blake, already a member of the A.F.L.'s American Guild of Variety Artists, mainly a vaudeville union, paid to keep Petrillo's musicians from walking out on the show...
Divorced. Jimmy Dorsey, 45, sweet-and-swing saxophone-playing bandleader; by Jane Porter Dorsey, 39, (her complaint: "If anyone brought records by some other musician into the house, [Jimmy] would smash them"); after 21 years of marriage; in Los Angeles...