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Among the new compositions Dixon played in Venice was a 20-minute Symphonic Set for Piano and Orchestra by Kansas-born Gordon Parks, 39, professionally a LIFE photographer and, like Conductor Dixon, a Negro. Written in four movements (Announcement, Episode, Nocturne, Prelude and Fugue), it proved to be strongly rhythmical...
By 1926, "symphonic" bands were the rage. Napoleon organized one of his own. Among its 15 members were Glenn Miller, Russ Morgan, Joe Venuti, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. It anticipated the age of swing by half a dozen years, but never caught on outside of Brooklyn. Phil...
The BIx Beiderbecke Story (Columbia, 6 sides LP). Third of a series of historical anthologies, this set takes 36 recordings out of the collector's-item class, fixes Cornetist Beiderbecke's halo more firmly in place. Vol. I (Bix and His Gang) finds him at his freest, contains...
Russell Stanger concluded his second season as conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra with a well-varied and often exciting concert in Sanders Theatre Thursday night. Despite some rough moments, the orchestra gave its best performance of the year. When an amateur symphonic group programs music of professional calibre, there...
Play together they did. In their first appearance at Paris' international Festival of the Arts, they offered modern French (Roussel, Honegger) and American (Barber, Piston) music, and left the audience (including President Auriol) shouting itself hoarse. In courtly appreciation, the orchestra and Conductor Munch broke a long-standing symphonic...