Word: trumpeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple statistics are arresting. Among the Fishbergs and Glantzes there are in the U.S. (and Russia has more): ten violinists, eight trumpeters, three pianists, two flutists, two clarinetists, two saxophonists, two drummers and one double bassist. Among the Borodkins and Gusikoffs there are five cellists, two violinists, four trumpeters, two drummers, one violist, one pianist, one clarinetist and one trombonist. The total amounts to some 47 orchestra players, includes twelve violinists, twelve trumpet players. Among the most prominent are Mischa Mischakoff (real name Fishberg), concertmaster of the NBC Symphony; Harry Glantz, first trumpet of the NBC Symphony; Sidney Baker...
...concert sponsored by France Forever will be given at Jordan Hall tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock. The program will feature Robert Collins, baritone; Jean Bodetti, Cellist, Felix Fox, pianist; Georges Mager, trumpet; Joseph Lukatski, English horn; Jean Devergie, oboe; and 25 members of the Boston Symphony with Leo Litwin, accompanist, and Louis Speyer conducting...
...editorial attitude Joseph Stalin reputedly has considerable control, responded to Mr. Willkie's homily with the choicest selection from a Bolshevik's polemical dictionary. "Willkie Is Stirring the Waters" was the title of Pravda's prominently displayed blast. It accused "Mr. Willkie, as an obedient speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense," Pravda discovered "a rotten smell...
...York City's leftist PM; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ($2), Captain Ted Lawson's report (written by Journalist Bob Considine) on the Doolittle raid; Eve Curie's North African Journey Among Warriors ($3.50); Commando Lieut. Colonel Robert Henrique's The Voice of the Trumpet ($2); Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8 ($2) and Battle for the Solomons ($2); John Hersey's Into the Valley ($2); Jack Belden's Retreat With Stilwell ($3); Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War ($3); Hilary St. George Saunders' Combined Operations; the Official Story of the Commandos...
This is painfully true when Ray Nance, an ordinary trumpet player, a poor violinist, and an unnecessarily heavy-handed showman, is out in front as soloist. It is definitely not required that a violinist assume an agonized, orgiastic expression in order to produce a simple passage; Nance was such a phony mugger that when he trotted out for his last violin solo the crowd laughed before he even began to play. Nance would never have been tolerated in the old Ellington band, and there would have been no room for such ordinary musicians as Skippy Williams and Jimmy Hamilton...