Word: vanguardism
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After winding up his song-and-dance chores in his own screen biography, ebony Singer Nat "King" Cole, a trifle breathless from crooning a dozen of his hits, e.g., Nature Boy, Too Young, told how he felt as the hero of the vanguard film in Hollywood's projected series of movies about living musicians of renown. Asked if he had been thrown by any of his own lines, Cole shrugged and husked...
Thigamajig (Mel Powell Trio; Vanguard LP). Another in Vanguard's fine jazz series. Powell's piano and the trumpet-playing of Boston's Ruby Braff have a bright fresh effect, both in the oldies, like You're My Thrill, and in the fanciful modernities of Powell's own Bouquet...
...Vienna State Opera Chamber Orchestra conducted by Felix Prohaska; Vanguard, 3 LPs. Vienna soloists conducted by Jascha Horenstein; Vox, 2 LPs). The Vanguard set of these masterpieces is played more cohesively and soulfully, particularly in such spots as the dissonant slow movement in Concerto No. 1. Vox's interpretations are more rugged and, in the low-toned No. 6, merrier. Standout performer: the Vanguard trumpeter, who tootles his sky-high part in No. 2 with insolent ease. Vox says it used a "clarino" for the part, which sounds more like a clarinet than a trumpet...
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto (George Eskdale; Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Franz Litschauer; Vanguard, 1 LP). This is a must. The soloist is brilliant London Trumpeter Eskdale, who amazed and delighted collectors when he recorded excerpts of the concerto some 20 years ago. His style is effortless, his tone is clear and martial, recalling a soldier preening himself in his full-dress uniform...
...Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, her poetry readings in the U.S. are well attended, and Hollywood has hired her to write the film script for her own book on Queen Elizabeth I. Now published for the first time in the U.S. are her Collected Poems (Vanguard; $6.50). They make an impressive and haunting volume. To Dame Edith, her success is gratifying, especially when she recalls her father's pleasantry on reading her first poems: "Edith will commit suicide when she finds out she cannot write poetry...