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Individual competence characterized almost all of the principal roles. As the raisonneur and heavy-duty comedian, Walter Aikman showed confidence and good taste, while his various musical numbers were well-sung. William Whitehead appeared only in the last act, but his duet "Down Among the Dead Men" with Aikman was...
Officially, that was all there was to the state visit. The Trumans had dinner quietly that night with Mackenzie King, while daughter Margaret sang solos for the 24 guests at an Embassy party and chimed in as the group sang Down by the Old Mill Stream. About 11 o'...
When he was ten a wealthy woman on San Francisco's Pacific Avenue began to finance his training. He made the local circuit: recitals in private homes, luncheon, solos, a formal recital in Veterans' Auditorium. In 1937 he was ready for Manhattan and Town Hall-or thought he...
His band was wide enough, with a low-range baritone sax and plenty of trombone on one end, and a couple of trumpet men who could skid up to high F on the other, so that he could spread the chords. His music was carefully arranged except for solos. The...
Aaron Copland's "In the Beginning" was the most warmly received of the three commissioned works. It is a simple piece, consisting largely of recitative choral chant and of solos in arioso form. Some of the more extended choral passages are in two widely-spaced parts only. A few are...