Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hendl believes both that "Bach should be heard more," and that "Jazz and show music contain examples which . . . can only be called good music . . . and will find a permanent place in our musical culture." Hendl plans to serve his listeners a menu made up 65% of old masters, 35% of...
For himself, Conductor Hendl hopes to be able to do a bit more entertaining in his rambling white house in fashionable Preston Hollow, which he shares with his onetime actress wife "Newby" and daughter Susan, 2, and possibly get in a bit of tennis and flying. "It is highly desirable...
Serge Koussevitzky had retired as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but not as a friend of music. Last week the Library of Congress received a gift of more than $100,000 from the wealthy, 75-year-old conductor, to be used for commissioning original compositions. The library was also...
Songwriter Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael was not sure he was quite up to the job. "I know my limitations . . . I'm not a student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the...