Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Dorchester, left Nick's, New York clearing house of the Chicago musicians, last week to spend a few days up here away from the frenzy of collective improvisation that goes on there nightly . . . Listen to Ruby Smith's Decca record of "Harlem Gin Blues" for a little uninhibited vocal ribaldry . . . Columbia expects to issue some records by Red Norvo's band, which was heard in Boston some weeks ago, with Mildred Bailey singing the refrains as of yore...
Chief work on the program was the world's premiere of "The Defense of Corinth." In the modern manner it combines a choral narrative with vocal choruses. The narrative, written by Elliot Carter '30, was rendered by Quinten Hope...
...Famous Orchestra and Ethel Waters in a thoroughly enjoyable sixty-five minutes. Despite sundry sepia entertainers from the Duke's revue, "Jump for Joy," the band itself was, as always, the big news, whether showing off its soloists or weaving a subdued and subtle background to a vocal refrain. Miss Waters was very good, special accompanist and all, but on at least one occasion I found myself trying to hear what Lawrence Brown's trombone was doing in the offing...
...resembled Schubert. Despite his strivings for power and long-winded reiterations, he might well be called the Heine of music with a dash of Buddha thrown in, the nostalgic life-affirmer and the world-weary philosopher rolled into one. Song was the germ of his material, and a vocal text gave him the unity he naturally lacked and set the prevailing mood. His greatest work was probably the song-cycle, "Das Lied von der Erde," in which he achieves great poignancy with the greatest economy of means. Here is the most vivid and original Mahler, strolling through a misty Chinese...
...pretty tough spot, but without a paddle. It's bad enough to hear bulletins telling of Japs in Malaya, Nazis in Libya, and U-boats off the Atlantic coast without having to take an ironic slap in the face when these bulletins are followed by a peachy little vocal trio telling us in anemic harmony to Remember Pearl Harbor, to Keep 'Em Flying, and that We Did It Before And We'll Do It Again, and all right for you, Adolf Hitler, you just stop being so mean or we'll give you a great big slap on the wrist...