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...TIME, June 8, 1936). Tibbett is still president. The Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard Bonelli (made second vice president) to Paul Whiteman. But the Guild could not obtain a union charter, for it trespassed on the field of the Grand Opera Artists' Association of America, which had been chartered by the A. F. of L. a year before...
...Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time and inclination for serious work. In 1923 he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman's jazz-concert played in highbrow Aeolian Hall. The enthusiastic reception it got is now historic. Thereafter Gershwin wrote for a double audience. Some 18,000 people packed Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium when he played his works there. Walter Damrosch conducted Gershwin's Jazz Concerto in sanctified...
...independent producer. Last year Irving Mills turned down $750,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for the properties of Mills Music, Inc., which owns the world's largest collection of copyrighted popular tunes. On the books of Mills Artists, Inc., are such dance orchestras as those led by Paul Whiteman, Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, Cabell ("Cab") Calloway, Jack Denny. Mills bands and Mills music have long been a mainstay of American Record affiliates. Last January, in Hollywood, Mr. Mills began making his own records. Decca put out a feeler for Mills and his songs and artists, but before anything could...
...kind of music. Some time, when I get older-I am 44 now-I may try a strict symphony form, but in the meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded by Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard all these works...
Less impressive than Middleton's recitative were: a Scottish Suite by Adolph Deutsch, Whiteman's short, bespectacled chief arranger; the now familiar cacophonies of Ferde Grofé's Tabloid; Deutsch's Essay on Waltzes wherein the hybrid orchestra pieced together remnants of Beethoven, Gounod, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, George Evans, Chopin, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and Johann Strauss. A blues clarinetist leaped into a long, screaming, upward run; Roy Bargy followed with incredibly nimble piano work and splashed hot chords into the Rhapsody in Blue. Beaming, Paul Whiteman about-faced, took many bows, and the All-American jazz...