Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small town of Rhaunen, near Germany's Ruhr Basin, Kahn arrived in the U.S. as a gangling boy of twelve. Son of an impoverished smalltown Rabbi who peddled fruit for a living on Detroit's streets, young Albert seemed destined to be an infant prodigy musician. But the vicissitudes of fruit peddling made it necessary for young Albert to enter the offices of a Detroit architect as office boy. He was fired from the job because he smelled too strongly of his father's horse, whom he dutifully curried every...
Died. Bernard ("Bunny") Berigan, 33, veteran trumpet virtuoso, topnotch tooter of the jazz and swing eras; of an intestinal ailment aggravated by trumpeting; in Manhattan. He began as a boy musician, appeared with name bands when he was 18, soloed with Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, organized his own band...
...Converse College students, a voice teacher, a movie usher, a private at nearby Camp Croft. Local, too, was the composer, for dark, rugged Ernst Bacon, 43, is dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College, and the guiding spirit of the festivals. A Chicago-born musician who has won a Pulitzer music award and two Guggenheim fellowships, Bacon has composed sensitive songs, witty orchestral works, tuneful light music. Last year the League of Composers commissioned him to compose the second* opera under its Composers' Theater plan for opera suitable for colleges and little theaters, i.e., easily...
...program will, of course, be broadcast over the Network, but the presence of a large, lively, and appreciative audience is here and now requested, as appreciation is something a jazz musician should receive in good measure. The opening chorus will begin about 8:45, in order to have everyone properly warmed up by 9 o'clock...
...wrote an avid amateur jazz musician. Paul Smith, in a Manhattan jazz concert program note a month ago. Last week Manhattanites had their fourth chance of the season to hear jazz-authentic, impromptu jazz-in the plush seats of Town Hall...