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...antique even in Shakespeare's time. Although in England and Germany the recorder never quite became extinct, elsewhere it became a museum piece like the crwth (a type of Welsh fiddle), the nose flute, the theorbo. Five years ago, when a man asked for a recorder at G. Schirmer, Inc., Manhattan's big music store, he drew blank. Last week Schirmer's had a window full of recorders. Even during the dull summer months, sales had gone...
Author of such vocal successes as The Big Brown Bear Went Woof; J'Ever-Hm? I Did! Bitty Buzz; Rachem; Nichavo, Mana-Zucca has also written orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a raft of piano pieces. Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last...
...Fosses, Jewish, went to Paris in 1933, where Lukas, who had begun his musical lispings at seven, studied with pedagogues of the Conservatoire. In 1937 the family reached the U. S., put Lukas in Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Since then he has written piano pieces (published by Schirmer), a violin sonata (broadcast from Manhattan), two operas (not yet performed). Father Foss is in business. In Germany he wrote books on philosophy, but in the U. S., says Son Lukas, "the only philosophy is 'Take it easy,' and you can't write books about that...
...shape and size lived in the same apartment building at No. 250 East 178th Street. If you did not know them well, you might easily have confused Philip Orlovsky, onetime clothing workers union official (now in the textile-shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing (he was up to $4,200-a-year from office boy after 22 years) and the New York Giants. Mr. Penn stood 5 ft. 8 in., weighed 240 lb.; Mr Orlovsky...
William N. Chambers '39 acted as chairman of the New England executive committee, American Student Union, with Boone Schirmer secretary at a meeting last Saturday...