Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Quartets and soloists from all over the South hopped onto the platform to take their turns at singing with piano or guitar accompaniment. In between, professional gospel song leaders led the audience in catchy religious songs not found in regular denominational hymnals. Most of the men, women & children attending had been going to gospel sings all their lives (eastern Texas averages about 300 local song get-togethers a week...
...general impression ereated was that they needed rehearsing--their faces were buried in their scores and they consequently didn't watch Mr. Knapp, their conductor. The unfortunate result was that as a section fell behind on the beat it made the rest of the club go flat despite the piano accompaniment. When they sang folk songs and spiritual afterwards without music, however, this failing largely vanished...
Charles Munch, who is capable of the most energetic gymnastics during the forte passages and the most sulxlued style of conducting during the piano parts to draw out the orchestra, used his ability to the utmost. The effect was such that Ravel's work sounded like a new and wonderful piece being performed for the first time...
...five first got together in a North Hollywood High School dance band. When it began to look more like a rut than a groove, 17-year-old Piano Player Johnny ("Curley") Williams (named after his drummer father) broke away and formed his own quintet. He took with him Mel Sidney, a bullfiddle slapper like his dad, Al Pollen. Other recruits were 16-year-old Perry ("Bunny") Bodtkin, the trombone-playing son of Bing Crosby's guitar accompanist, and Gene Estes and Don Ingle. "Boy," says Curley, "we yanked the nucleus right out of that Hollywood High band...