Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, fortified by a $500 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, Gerschefski settled down in a farmhouse in West Cambridge, N.Y., above the Ramapos, with his wife, who is also a composer and pianist, and their five children, aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing...
These include Johnny Fields, formerly with Wild Bill Davison, on the bull fiddle; trumpet player Rudy Braff, once with Bobby Hackett's band; and Al Navarro at clarinet. George Wein will be at the plane and Don Scott on drums. Contrasted against Higgenbotham's individual style will be that of Ralph Ferrigno, Boston trembonist now with Max Kaminsky...
Music, with Echoes. Matisse's revolutionary synthesis through the years has become increasingly lucid, brilliant and gay. Now his subject matter means little; the colors are the thing. And each color, linked in loose, insistent rhythms of linear composition, sounds in the eye like a separate instrument: trumpet, cello, cymbals, oboe, harp and clarinet. Freely transforming nature, the paintings resound with symbolic echoes...
...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...
Afterwards, the praise was mountainous. "I ... enjoyed it very much," wired President Truman. "Very good, very good" muttered Petrillo (who had been invited by NBC to play his trumpet with the orchestra, but had cannily declined...