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Look at it this way. Since 1931, technicians have made great advances in recording facilities and acoustics, consequently enabling orchestra leaders to improve on the general quality and balance of the music they record. Nor have the arrangers been asleep. Fletcher Henderson didn't hit his stride until 1934. Since then not only he, but many others including Eddie Bauter, Mary Lou Williams, By Oliver, Eddie Durham and Glenu Miller, have turned out orchestrations that are a vast improvement on the jerky, jazzy arrangements of the twenties (Duke Ellington, of course, is an exception...
Down the homestretch they galloped, long-striding Bogskar opening more & more daylight with each stride, crossing the finish line four lengths ahead of MacMoffat, ten lengths ahead of Gold Arrow...
...contemporary composer, he has gone on correcting his past mistakes, improving his tools, getting his music clearer & clearer. Last year, after groping steadily upward on a rickety ladder of complex, dry, carpentered scores (Symphony 1933, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Song for Occupations, etc.), Harris really hit his stride with a Third Symphony. No sooner was it finished than Boston's pompous Sergei Koussevitzky rushed to give it a premiere. No sooner had Koussevitzky played it than excitable Maestro Arturo Toscanini (who conducts few U. S. compositions) asked a chance to broadcast it with his NBC Orchestra. Last month...
Hitting its stride during the past year, the Philadelphia Opera has attracted young audiences, has never played to more than 100 empty seats. Its current small deficit (less than $5,000) should not greatly burden the 30 "semi-angels...
Among the baggage of U. S. Minister to Bulgaria George Howard Earle 3rd, when he sails March 9, will be a pinball machine, such as used to be in the executive mansion at Harrisburg, where the Governor (1935-39), during hot conferences, would stride up & down, snap the plunger furiously...