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...Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues Composer W. C. Handy, Violinist Kurt Polnarioff of the Pittsburgh Symphony (with his hair down), Conductor Frank Black (with a hot harpsichord). Official singer is pretty, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore, 23, who was born Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn., changed her name because of puns. When old Composer Handy heard Dinah Shore send out his Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chamber-Music Society | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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