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...Larry Adler, at 27 the world's greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people consider them reprehensible...
Harmonicist Adler, by adroit sucking and blowing, along with skillful finger work, can make his mouth organ sound like a violin, oboe, French horn, trumpet. In this week's CBS show-Lip Service, on Norman Corwin's Workshop hour-he is an appallingly corny hillbilly who imitates the sounds of a train, swings part of a Mozart violin sonata, plays Bach and variations on Turkey in the Straw...
Greenwich House Music School was founded 35 years ago, in one room with one pupil, one piano. Now headed by a lanky Uruguayan violinist, Enrique ("Hank") Caroselli, it has two remodeled Greenwich Village houses, teaches more than 600 children and adults. Fees for lessons in voice, violin, piano begin at 50?, are shaved or even waived for the needy. Like most settlement schools, Greenwich House is less interested in training professional musicians than in teaching music as an avocation. But it is proud-just as Chicago's Hull House is of Benny Goodman and Manhattan's Music School...
Starting Saturday this column will be written by Harry Munroe '43, who really knows his stuff despite the fact that he plays the violin, and quite badly at that. Well, I guess I had more fun writing about swing music this year than you had reading it, and at least I can be satisfied with myself for turning the column over to competent hands...
Conductor Brown, now 34, glares professionally at 85 musicians at three rehearsals a week, half a dozen concerts a season. Half the orchestra is professional, and unionized, about one-third of it feminine (including Hine Brown's pretty, violin-playing wife). The players average $10 a concert, get nothing for rehearsals, and the union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop...