Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone...
Here in Cambridge, the Germanic Museum Concerts are getting under way next Monday night with an organ recital by E. Power Biggs, of the Six Trio Sonatas of J. S. Bach and the F major Toccata. This is a marathon concert in any man's language, as the Trio Sonatas are generally conceded to be the most formidable things in the organ repertoire, and whether Biggs, who has never sparkled on Bach, will do them justice, is a question. But the wonderful music in the Sonatas and the fact that there is no adequate recording of them definitely warrants...
...Germanic Museum Organ, by the way, continues to be owned not by Harvard University but by the Aeolian-Skinner Company which built it. And the Friends of the Bach Organ, an enthusiastic group of patrons, continues struggling to raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value...
...Moscow radio quoted, Red, Star, Soviet army organ, as admitting that "the advance of the Germans in the Donets Basin has not been halted. The danger in the south is very grave...
Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for Castillo's scalp, insisting that the Acting President was hellbent for dictatorship. Only two papers approved the firing: Razón, arch-conservative organ of Castillo's own party, and the Nazi-subsidized Pampero. Ramón Castillo sat tight. If he gets away with ousting the Council, he may decree that December's elections in Buenos Aires Province be held under provincial, instead of Federal, law, thereby insuring a fraudulent victory for his own Conservative Party...