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...increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving him a present-a shiny, new gold trumpet...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra had its troubles. Some Ives compositions are marked "play as you will." In rehearsal, single measures in Ives's symphonic suite Three Places in New England had to be hashed over as many as ten times. One section has a trumpet blaring the melody of The British Grenadiers in march tempo, while the strings saw away on a waltz. Groaned Assistant Conductor Richard Burgin: "I give the time, but the musicians are not supposed to follow...
...Trumpet-voiced Benay Venuta (real name: Benvenuta Crooke) had come a long way from the San Francisco wharfside where she sang in the '20s. She has had a Broadway career (as a sort of second-run Ethel Merman) and a few big scenes in the movies. This week, at 36, Benay will step up to a microphone and a new career in radio as quizzer on a parents v. children stunt called Keeping Up with the Kids (Sat. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T., Mutual). The show calls for no singing, but that's all right with Benay. "I hope...
...Lily trumpet around his green groins...
Departures from the strictly local fare were satisfying; Holst's "Suite for Band" gave Holmes a chance to show the individual excellence of his players, as tubas, trombones, trumpets and horns in turn carried the theme of the first movement, while the sole trumpet of Robert Hermann stood out brilliantly in the restrained Intermezzo which gave way to full volume and brilliance for the final March. Hermann showed his excellent tone and tongue control in threading his way through the delicate phrasing of Morton Gould's "Pavanne...