Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chandler Thomas' job to tell you about all the news in music: the rise of an attractive new jazz singer like Mindy Carson (TIME, Aug. 1); an account of the monumental recording task which Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska undertook in her 70th year (TIME, June 20); the controversial case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). This week the news is the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, the impact it has had on New York and will have on all the cities on its tour...
Chandler Thomas comes by his job quite naturally. His mother was a pianist ; his father was a journalist on the New York World and the Seattle Times. Thomas played trumpet in dance bands around his native Seattle, went to the University of Washington, took up classical music (piano and composition), and became a reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under...
There was neither minister nor music at the funeral service in Denver last week for Oscar O. Whitenack, 79, who for eight years edited the "Open Forum" column of the Denver Post. When a handful of mourners gathered at the flower-covered coffin they heard the voice of Whitenack himself explaining...
Princess Elizabeth announced that little Prince Charlie, who will be one year old next week, has already developed an ear for music...
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