Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same program Emma Boynet, French pianist who appeared with the Boston Symphony two years ago, will be the soloist in the Concerto of Mozart in C Major (Kochel 467). The concert will open with Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, and close with Bach's Organ Passacaglia, as transcribed for orchestra by Ottorino Respighi...
Columbia's Bessie Smith selections, from the numerous discs it cautiously labeled "race records" and ceased issuing about 1929, include: St. Louis Blues, simple and powerful, and Reckless Blues, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the cornet and Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith...
...plays running on Broadway, offstage organ music is simulated by that versatile instrument, put on the market two years ago by Inventor Laurens Hammond, which produces organ-like sounds- and many others-by electrical vibrations (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week the American Federation of Musicians, ever vigilant where mechanical music encroaches upon musicians' jobs, stepped in with an order that an orchestra of at least four men must be employed wherever a Hammond is played...
This week the Hammond comes into its musical majority when Italian Organist Fernando Germani, a onetime child prodigy, gives a Hammond recital in Boston's Symphony Hall. First organist to take a Hammond on tour, he will play Bach and Handel organ music, as well as arrangements of piano and orchestral compositions, in 52 U. S. cities. An organ debutant with the Chicago Symphony nine years ago, when he was 20, Germani is now official organist of Rome's Augusteo Orchestra. As Benito Mussolini's favorite musician, he played at the wedding of Daughter Edda and Count...
After speeches, songs and organ music, up rose Local No. 1's acting president, John M. Fewkes, 38, to defy the Board of Education. Informing the audience that a board stenographer was taking notes, he shouted: 'T hope they get an earful." He proceeded to pledge the new union to drive the "spoils system" out of Chicago's schools. Shaking his fist, he cried: ''Let them fire...