Word: trumpeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed Larry Adler blows the mouth organ with Pierian purity, can make it sound like an oboe, fiddle, horn, wawa trumpet. Paul Draper, son of Muriel Draper and nephew of monologuist Ruth Draper, was a stuttering misfit until he learned to dance. Now Paul Draper profitably applies ballet technique and good music to tap dancing, with such warmth and intelligence that many rate him the equal or superior of Fred Astaire...
While not exactly ominous, the narrator's voice has an authoritarian quality that commands attention, just as Gabriel's trumpet will one day bid us drop whatever we are doing and listen...
...muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone...
Since Hitler's rise, Viereck has taken up his trumpet again, has tooted lustily for Naziism. Several times the Government had turned a piercing eye on him. It hauled him in a year ago for a searching examination, and Viereck, who had properly registered as an agent of a foreign power, apparently told everything there was to tell...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Major (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Soviet Composer Shostakovich's exuberant, revolutionary thumps and trumpet calls needed an up-to-date needling, get it here...