Word: soloist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satchmo:The Musical Autobiography of Louis Armstrong (Decca, 4 LPs). This lushly packaged, $20 salute to the most influential jazz soloist of them all traces his long career from the shouting, heavily riffed style he learned from Joe Oliver in his Chicago days (Dipper Mouth Blues, High Society) to the high, singing lyricism of the late '20s and early '30s, admirably illustrated in one of his own alltime favorites: On the Sunny Side of the Street. Most of the numbers, recorded at the end of 1956, are replays of records Louis cut between...
...full Chorus, with soprano soloist Dorothy Crawford, gave three excerpts from Vaughan-Williams' enchanting In Windsor Forest? the jaunty "Falstaff and the Faries," the lush "Wedding Chariot," and the sturdy "Epilogue...
...will present a concert on WGBH-TV, Channel 2, tonight at 9. The program, under the direction of Harold C. Schmidt, professor of music at Stanford University, will include Renaissance madrigals and selections from opera and contemporary choral music, it was announced. Dorothy Crawford is scheduled to be soprano soloist, while Rafael Ferrer and Anne Chamberlain will accompany the chorus...
Miss Vosgerchian, a frequent soloist and ensemble performer in Boston, will present works by Scarlatti and Chopin, and the Sonata Opus 101 by Beethoven...
...made a comeback this week. Harry S. Truman, star, supporting cast, musical soloist and partial scriptwriter of TV's memorable tour of the White House in 1952, put on another good one-man show this week on CBS's Let's Take a Trip. He was the calm and canny host for a TV preview of the $1,750,000 Harry S. Truman Library in home-town Independence...