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...program of recorded music Saturday in Matthews Hall common Room, 3-5 p.m., is Dvorak's Quartet in E-flat, Saint-Saens' Septet for String Quartet, Bass, Trumpet & Piano, Fernando Sor's Estudio 5, 12, 9, Minuetto from Sonata (Opus 22), Largo from Fantasia II, Rondo Allegretto from Sonata (Opus 22), Andante Largo (Opus 5, no. 5), Hugo Alfven's Midsummer Vigil, Swedish Rhapsody (no. 1, Opus 19), The Mountain King, A Ballet Pantomime (Opus 87), and Bloch's Schelomo...
Casual Kazoo. Last week, fresh off the road, Hirt was packing them in at the Pier 600 Club on Bourbon Street, where his success began. A huge (6 ft. 2 in., 300 lbs.), bush-bearded man, he stands on the bandstand, his trumpet like a toy kazoo in one hamlike hand. With his other hand, he sketches out a casual beat. Then he may break into a surprisingly agile buck and wing and lead his combo (trombone, clarinet, drums, bass, piano, trumpet) into a searing chorus of Down by the Riverside. Snarling, growling, shivering into a remarkably clean vibrato...
Jazzy Exterminator. Until recently, it was even harder for anyone outside New Orleans to hear Hirt-mainly because the responsibility of a wife and eight children kept him from hitting the road. Son of a New Orleans policeman, he was given a pawnshop trumpet when he was six, studied classical music through high school, entered the Cincinnati Conservatory on a scholarship. At Cincinnati he noticed less gifted students picking up $5 a night for appearances with dance bands. The money, Al decided, lay outside the long-haired classics, and with the aid of Harry James and Roy Eldridge records...
After a while, New Orleans musicians recognized Hirt as a "great trumpet," and when he organized his own small band in 1955, he began to build a local following. Last fall he was persuaded to try his luck out of town. This year Hirt expects to clear more than $200,000-a change from his lean eating days that astounds him (his fair-weather breakfast ration: a dozen eggs). "I'm really not doing anything different," says Al Hirt. But he also admits: "I've called off the elopement drills for my daughters...
Secondhand Trumpet. Back home in Cleveland, where his father is a factory worker, gifted Vince La Selva begged for and got a secondhand trumpet when he was eight. As a prized member of his high school band, La Selva was allowed to conduct occasionally, but when he entered Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, it was to study the trumpet. At Juilliard, La Selva organized a 60-member student orchestra, later revived it when the Army stationed him at Governors Island...