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This is painfully true when Ray Nance, an ordinary trumpet player, a 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...
...Leopold Friedman was born 52 years ago in Circleville, Ohio, took his present name while traveling with a singer named Jack Lewis. Son of the owner of Circleville's leading department store, Lewis ran away from home to join Dr. Cooper's Herb Medicine Show as clarinet soloist. Later he led a parade of bloodhounds with the Gentry Brothers Dog and Pony Show. In 1917 he got a Manhattan job at Rector's with Earl Fuller's band...
...Chicago Symphony). He had been picked by Arturo Toscanini in 1937 to organize and train the NBC Symphony. Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York job by suddenly firing or pensioning 17 of the Philharmonic's most important musicians (including Concertmaster Mishel Piastre and practically every soloist in the brass and reed sections). It was obvious that the orchestra was in for a complete overhaul...
...Soloist for the evening was Phyllis Smith (of Wellesley College) whose rendition of the "Recitative and Aria 'Dove Song'" from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" was the highlight of the concert...
Four months ago a new musical organization. The Slide Rule Symphony, led by the versatile Professor Chaffec, appeared in Cambridge. It proved to be a true rival for the Boston Pops Orchestra. The soloist on the Saxophone was none other than Dr. A. (Amplifier) Tatum. The tall Texan brought down the house with a ballad from his home state, "Deep in the Heart of Texas". Other stars of the faculty made up the rest of the ensemble. We will never forget Dr. Le Corbeiller giving out on the cello...