Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its programs due on the air April 15. Harvard's first radio station offers undergraduates an opportunity to use their vocal chords in four ways: as classical music commentators, jazz commentators, news analysts and station announcers...
Woody Herman has continued to do good discs, "East Side Kick" being one of his best numbers done lately. Get a load of "Blue Prelude" with Wood's vocal chorus and then get the old Isham Jones version of the same, done for Decca when most of the Herman Herd were with Jones . . . One of Louis Armstrong's best numbers in a great while is "Poor Old Joe." Main reason is that it has the life and pep that the old Louis discs used to have and that none of them have had lately . . . Bing Crosby's "If I Knew...
Plans for the organization of an informal vocal group similar to Yale's Wiffenpoofs were revealed yesterday by Robert Coleman '42, next year's president of the Instrumental Club...
...Denver Congregationalist minister, Edwin McArthur left a job as runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...
...serious regret of Mencken's life is that he was not well taught in music. "Lady music teachers . . . wrecked my technic and debauched my taste." He still likes to pound the piano but, "born with an intense distaste for vocal music ... to this day think of even the most gifted Wagnerian soprano as no more than a blimp fitted with a calliope." As for Karl Czerny, standard nightmare of every child's piano lessons: "So late as 1930, being in Vienna, I visited and desecrated his grave...