Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lombardo, sad-eyed maestro of unhurried dance music, stepped up his tempo and happily raced away with a water-speed title. At Red Bank, N.J., leisure-hour Boatsman Lombardo won the national motorboat sweepstakes. Next: a crack at the Gold Cup in Detroit this Labor...
Last week leisurely "X" had its tempo jolted. Curtis' first postwar baby, Holiday, was ailing and in need of transfusions. Curtis President Walter D. Fuller raided "X", transferred its editor, natty, 44-year-old Manhattan Adman Ted Patrick,* to edit Holiday. Fuller also dug into what Patrick called his "terrific staff" of "X"-men, many recruited from Yank and OWI. Holiday, Curtis' flashily upholstered but unexciting travel magazine, had dropped from a first-appearance (TIME, Feb. 25) sale of 450,000 to 400,000 (about half of them pre-publication trial subscribers), and newsstand returns were heavy. Fuller...
...main features that distinguished the old N.O.W. men. Compare some of those ancient fossilized discs by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Crosby and Dorsey if you doubt it. The older numbers were almost always played in a hell-for-leather tempo with a lot of those pogo stick ragtime mannerisms. The trumpet was considerably more limited in function, the rhythm less obviously two-beat, and the trombone quite tuba-like. The amount of electrical excitement generated by the old timers was considerable, however, a quality with which their successors do not seem much...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
Prokofleff: Sonata No. 7, Opus 83 (DM 1042). This second of Prokofleff's three "War" Sonatas was only completed in 1942, and shows its composer at the peak of his skill as a piano writer. The grotesquely dramatic changes in mood and tempo certainly do not make for particularly pleasant listening but they reveal a highly ingenious and original style of composition. Vladimir Horowitz, who has introduced all of the "War" Sonatas in this country, does a fine job on music that is highly suited to his style of playing. The recording is good...