Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these implications is true. Much as we white swing men would like to take credit for the renaissance of swinging, justice compels us to pass it along to a very black musician, Jimmie Lunceford...
...When it comes to individual "swing" men, why did you fail to mention other idols of the modern musician, such as the Dorsey Brothers, "Miff" Mole, "Red" Nichols, Vic Burton (drums), "Saxey" Mansfield (tenor sax), Joe Venuti (violin), Irving Brodsky (piano) and Dick McDonough (guitar...
Sirs: I appreciated immensely "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho," and have found ample opportunity to quote the impressions of "Swing." However, there is another term that eludes definition-''Corn." Being a pseudo-musician, I have glibly and authoritatively used it without a quaver. But at last one malicious person demanded a translation, and I was pretty well stopped. . . . STEVE HARRISON...
...greatest artists and one of the most difficult of all prima donnas. She had a proud, heroic type of beauty, a graceful swinging stride, beautifully molded arms which seemed to shape all the music she sang. Her voice was uneven but it was always deeply personal. And as a musician she was so sure that she was able to prompt any one who sang on the stage with her. Her impersonations seemed completely spontaneous, but they were all carefully considered before she gave them their seething, transfigured quality. As Tosca she was so tigerish that every Scarpia who sang with...
...abler musician than most opera singers, she has a mother who now dabbles in concert management in New York, a sister who teaches singing, a husband, Frank Chapman Jr., son of the American Museum of Natural History's famed ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman...