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Condon was the first to insist that Dixieland jazz was worthy of being lifted out of the dingy cellars and onto the concert stage. He helped inspire the whole cult of jazz critics, who could spin out columns on the flittering trumpet solos of Bobby Hackett. To prove his point, in 1942 Condon promoted a highly successful series of jazz "concerts" at Manhattan's Town Hall. During cool jazz's dominance, Condon doggedly ran his own club in Greenwich Village. He organized the bands, promoted Dixieland indefatigably, arranged for the recording sessions...
There is a line in Goldsmith's Retaliation which goes "When they talked of their Raphael's, Corregio's and stuff, he shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." This Arts Festival takes snuff...
...retirement ceremony, Taylor reviewed the troops, stopping occasionally to talk with a soldier, inspected some howitzers and found them spotless. That done, he received from McNamara his third oakleaf cluster in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Said McNamara, borrowing the title of Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, his post-retirement analysis of U.S. defense ills: "Maxwell Taylor has never sounded an uncertain trumpet. He will always be one of the first to whom we turn with the hard tasks, the great challenges...
Sounding the Trumpet. Next day Johnson was in Ohio, still nonpoliticking. In Cleveland he sent his Secret Service escorts into nervous tremors during the ride from the airport by stopping again and again to plunge into the crowds to shake hands. At the Public Auditorium, Johnson delivered a peach of a noncampaign speech to a convention of the Communications Workers of America. "And when the roll is called, and when the trumpet sounds, and when the strong of heart and the stout of spirit stand up to be counted," thundered Johnson, "I have not the slightest doubt where this union...
BACH: CANTATA NO. 51 (Decca). "Make a joyful noise unto God," sings Soprano Judith Raskin as she proceeds to do so, outshining a trumpet obbligato in a series of brilliant salvos. It is a virtuoso performance of some of Bach's most difficult and florid arias, and Thomas Dunn's Festival Orchestra of New York is almost too unobtrusive...