Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believe it or not, the above quotes are from an interview given Michael Mok of the New York Evening Post by clarinetist Artic Shaw...
There isn't much that can be said about it. For a long time, this column has felt that Shaw's contempt for his public has showed itself in his music, he not bothering to play anything but noisy, trite stuff. Mr. Shaw has said that he wanted to get out of the music business. The above Shavian comments should take care of that very nicely. As far as we are concerned, I'affaire Shaw is a closed book, as we suspect Mr. Shaw will be shortly...
...going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give up a prosperous livelihood, and too many like Tommy Dorsey and Artic Shaw who are so busy looking for the big money they don't have time to relax in their music or their personal manner...
Mostly true: Jesse Stacy, former Goodman ace, is joining Bob Crosby to take over piano duties, Joe Sullivan retiring for another vacation . . . Singer Bob Eberle is leaving Jimmy Dorsey to go with Bobby Byrn's new band. But both will remain with Dorsey for the time being. . . Artie Shaw's huffiness about having to use jitterbug terms in his MGM picture strengthens the impression that he has gone highhat. So do the three law suits he is involved in right now for having made himself generally obnoxious, the worst offence being at the Canadian National Exposition when he arrived three...
Conductor Harrison's tentative tuning-up brought hisses from his fellows. Crackled perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw (in a telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything...