Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Billings: American Psalms and Fuguing Tunes (The Madrigalists, Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). One-eyed William Billings, Boston tanner and self-taught musician, wrote his "fuguing tunes" (not fugues but canons, like Three Blind Mice) for 18th-Century churchgoers. Long in disuse, Billings' choral works have been republished by Music Press Inc., a new Manhattan firm much of whose output is recorded by Columbia. Included in the album is Billings' chesty Chester, favorite of Revolutionary soldiers...
...years, a Chicago orchestra has held weekly rehearsals, given public concerts. Only its conductor (George Dasch, of Northwestern University) is a professional musician. Its founder was bass-playing George Lytton, president of the Hub stores. Now an orchestra of 115 Chicagoans, 25 of its players are presidents or vice presidents of businesses. A doctor plays the piccolo, a dentist the trombone, a poultry farmer the trumpet, a onetime steel puddler the oboe. A waiting list of 200 eyes the orchestra hungrily : from the list, new players are chosen when members die or cut too many rehearsals...
...band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus, and then Fats gives a vocal burlesque of the phoney Broadway sentiment voiced in the lyrics. After everybody digs a bit more, Gene Cedric (who, incidentally, is probably the most unappreciated jazz musician alive), slips in a tenor ride passage and Herman Autrey a trumpet. Finally, Fats takes the release, and by the time everybody else comes in for a terrific finish on the last eight bars, the tune is properly murdered. And I don't know of any small band that can take...
Mary, 18, is plump, pink-cheeked, Catholic, the daughter of a musician who deserted his family for a chorus girl. Mary has a part-time NYA job, goes to evening college, not because she likes to study but because she believes it gives her prestige. She also shows her insecurity by constantly changing her hairdo. Mary likes to dance, mortally hates & fears being kissed by boys (a transfer of resentment against her father). Eventually, assured by her interviewer that there was no harm in kissing, Mary learned to like...
Composer, musician, and able master of ceremonies, Professor W. Barton Leach introduced the faculty panel as the AAA, Associated Alleged Adults. They were Dean James Landis, Erwin N. Griswold, Professor Mary H. McGuire, Professor Milton ("poppa") Katz and Judge Calvert Magruder. The ladies represented the wives of the faculty...