Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since become very unhealthy to make such cracks in San Quentin. For merely blowing one sour note in mid-solo, the first trumpeter had "the freeze" put on him for days by the inmates. Variety acts are out. The convicts decided they were undignified. They work hard on their show, sometimes rehearsing until 2 a.m. When a Don Lee producer suggested that they could avoid this by using simpler musical arrangements, the musicians said they did not want to sound like "a bunch of lop-eared cons...
Novak, who graduated from the New England conservatory of Music in 1941, is president of the Harvard Music Club. He was soloist last year with the Worcester Festival Orchestra, the late Albert Stoessel conducting. Novak will play the piano solo in the Schumann selection...
...Baby Nora Bayes. Her career happened to Judy even more chancily than her name. Late in 1934 she ended a solo engagement at Lake Tahoe's Cal-Neva Lodge, drove off with her mother but forgot her hatbox. When she went back to get it, a man asked her to sing for him. She was in a hurry, but graciously agreed. The man was Song Writer Lew Brown. With him was Agent Al Rosen. So impressed was Agent Rosen by Judy's singing that for fruitless months he lugged the child around the Hollywood studios while casting directors...
...poor violinist, and an unnecessarily heavy-handed showman, is out in front as soloist. It is definitely not required that a violinist assume an agonized, orgiastic expression in order to produce a simple passage; Nance was such a phony mugger that when he trotted out for his last violin solo the crowd laughed before he even began to play. Nance would never have been tolerated in the old Ellington band, and there would have been no room for such ordinary musicians as Skippy Williams and Jimmy Hamilton...
Against a swarming background, Playwright Hart tells the story of six typical young flyers. First half of Winged Victory spans the 15-month training period, from a rowdy first glimpse of camp to a jubilant parade-ground graduation. Betweenwhiles, the boys slog away, go on solo flights, snatch moments with their girls and wives. One of the six washes out, another is killed night-flying...