Word: rocca
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...oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid virtuosity that the customers sat owl-eyed, raised a din with their applause when the pair had finished. Well they might. The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz...
Band, it is generally agreed that 20 years ago they originated the syncopated style of music now known as "swing." La Rocca has been running a grocery store, Shields painting houses. Last week the secret was out. At the Old Absinthe House. La Rocca and Shields were just getting "lipped up." With "swing" more popular than ever before, the old Dixieland Band was about to reorganize, set out on the road again...
...greedy. The holy promise was broken, just as it was in Sholom Ansky's mystical drama. This time The Dybbuk was having its U. S. premiere as an opera, which has had considerable success during the past two years in Europe. The music was by Italian Composer Lodovico Rocca, who spent four years in Palestine studying Hebrew moods and chants. The first production in English was proudly staged last week by Detroit's Civic Opera in Masonic Auditorium...
...alms, food, drink. One gay interlude came when a ragged peasant orchestra evoked a reedy little tune from the big band in the pit. Thereafter the tension grew grimmer. The beggars danced madly while Leah swept in to whirl despairingly with a groveling hunchback, a hideous, pawing old crone. Rocca's orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom, suddenly screamed like one gone mad. Just as abrupt was the hush when the verdict was passed. "A dybbuk has her ... a dybbuk, a dybbuk. . . ." Curtain went down with every instrument in the orchestra simulating the horror...
...colts-remnants of the famed stable of the late August Belmont, being sold by a red-faced auctioneer. No one told him of the prices: how his father, Fair Play, went to Joseph E. Widener for $100,000; his mother, Mahubah, brought a miserable $8,000; his friends Dona Rocca and Blue Grass $40,000 and $27,000 respectively...