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...Soloist: This is a movie primer...
After years of selling newspapers or swabbing decks on Great Lakes steamers, Harry Burleigh got a good job-as baritone soloist with the choir of Manhattan's big, downtown St. George's Episcopal Church. That was in 1894, when he was 28. He was still there, at the age of 78, last week. He had become world famed as the composer of some 300 songs and sacred anthems and as the greatest of all arrangers of Negro spirituals...
Kalman Novak '45 will be the featured soloist at the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert to be presented by the Pierian Sodality of 1808 at Paine Hall, in the Music Building, on Wednesday, January 19, at 8:15 o'clock. George Brown will conduct...
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...
...evening for me was Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton's coda on "Black and Tan Fantasy." Nanton's plunger trombone, although sometimes exploited for comic effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...