Word: musicianship
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...first story it is cast up at the feet of a Welsh child named Hoöl. Under its influence Hoöl dreams of its fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...
...that I know of loses so much in reproduction as the harpsichord. Its particular needly quality becomes merely stringy-sounding when transferred to records. Which is one reason why the Longy School concerts make such a rewarding series, and they are made even more rewarding by the skill and musicianship of Erwin Bodky. The concert of classical chamber-music at the Germanic Museum the other night demonstrated this most beautifully, and there will be future concerts of the same type, which I shall try to mention in advance. Meanwhile, the Stradivarius Quartet has scheduled a program at the Germanic Museum...
...Eddy, with much flashing of strong, white teeth, much glancing of roguish eyes, sang his audience into rapture. Few cared whether his velvety, beautifully controlled voice molded a phrase with real musicianship-as it often did-or turned a cheap song into a Hollywood production -as it more often did. When the pounding of feminine palm on palm had at last subsided, Mr. Eddy slipped away through a secret exit. At his hotel he had no more than made the elevator, on the run, when two panting women in evening dress rushed in, demanded his room number...
Died. Alexander Kelberine, 36, concert pianist; of an overdose of sleeping tablets, while his wife's divorce suit was pending, after a concert characterized by a critic as showing "not lack of musicianship, so much as a psychic turmoil''; in Manhattan...
Notice that Jimmy says that arrangements and showmanship plus musicianship are necessary if a band is to have real popular appeal. From hearing the band three different times this week at the Southland. I think that it ranks with Jimmy Dorsey as being the best all around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts...