Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Mathematician Albert Einstein, Musician José¹ Iturbi and erudite Baseballer Moe Berg (Phi Beta Kappa) saw their first planetarium shows to the accompaniment of Stokley's deep, well-modulated lectures. Baseballer Berg became a frequent visitor, once herded all his Boston Red Sox teammates .into the Philadelphia tabernacle of the stars...
...rate, the screaming, exhibitionistic type of swing fan who climbs all over the stand, swipes drumsticks, playfully pokes dents in a five hundred dollar horn, and otherwise makes himself knows is a really large headache, Nobody has any kick about the so-called "jitterbug" or shag dancing. A swing musician would have an awfully hard time justifying the sort of thing he plays and at the same time muttering dire things about the last moving shaggers. They have just reviewer prefers to do his track work outdoors, but that is pure laziness, son, pure laziness. I have but one criticism...
...behind the Illinois Symphony's sudden artistic and box-office success is no imported, caviar-fed maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving...
...slow phrases like Mildred Bailey, yet with the same rhythm that Ella Fitzgerald puts into everything that she does. Instead of Ella and Mildred singing duets, all the musical commotion was caused by a young lady with a wide grin surmounted by a pug nose. Later, over the traditional musician's supper--steak and French fries, this astonishing miss proceeded without the aid of any band to sing a style of lilting jazz with a sincerity seldom heard, and with a real singing voice--with the power and tone all there...