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Cross' bagpipe can not be used to play in unison with the band so it must be saved for spot solos. Bagpipes, it seems, cannot be tuned to the customary "A."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wi' a Hundred Pipers . . . | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

Brilliant & Bold. What would Chicagoans see when the great dusty-rose curtain goes up this week? There would be few breath-taking solos, although dark-eyed Prima Ballerina Yvette Chauviré would certainly draw a few gasps with her cameolike dancing. Few of the 16 ballets would be familiar-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Tradition | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Concerted Effort. In St. Louis, Organist Frederico Aquardo sang two solos, played the wedding march, hurried down from the loft to be bridegroom.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

In Carnegie Hall, no one had to strain to hear what frantic Trumpeter Gillespie and his 15 boppers (including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Deaf Can You Get? | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Both Sonja and Barbara Ann subscribe to the theory that it is wiser to try a single jump and be sure of making it than to try a double jump and miss. As a result, their "free" programs-which are, in effect, ballet solos on ice-are less daring than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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