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...TRUMPET UNBLOWN (305 pp.)-William Hoffman-Doubleday...
...Haydn:Trumpet Concerto (Vanguard). Haydn's normally high spirits soar, even higher with Trumpeter George Eskdale...
First reason for the vigorous intellectual leadership of the weekly Christian Century (circ. 38,500) is tough-minded, liberal Editor Charles Clayton Morrison, 81, who bought it in 1908 (when it had 600 readers) and made it into the trumpet voice of nondenominational Protestantism. Eight years ago Editor Morrison retired, leaving the magazine in the hands of his longtime managing editor, Paul Hutchinson. Editor Hutchinson is the second reason for the Century's success...
...Armstrong combo; Columbia). An uptempo, updated version of Kurt Weill's wonderful old ragtime hit from The Threepenny Opera (1928). Satchmo plays a lilting chorus and growls some free variations on the fine Marc Blitzstein lyrics (1954). Then he hears a shouted "Take it, Satch," and the Armstrong trumpet takes it high...
General de Gaulle writes with a great deal of justification. When France fell, he was one of the few at the top with the courage and the faith to carry on the fight, and the fact that he is only too glad to trumpet his virtues should not obscure the simple truth. But The Call to Honour shows also why his British and U.S. allies found him so hard to get along with and how his personal sense of destiny could sometimes become a nuisance to Churchill and F.D.R., who were as destiny-conscious as the next fellow. Even Harry...