Word: musicianship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain band becames prominent because its peculiar style appeals to the public. In every band there is something about the arrangements, that should more or less attract attention, either because they are unusually different or decidedly unique in some particular detail. Good arrangements are those which show the musicianship off to good advantage and at the same time have...
Notice that Jimmy says that arrangements and showmanship plus musicianship are necessary if a band is to have real popular appeal. From hearing the band three different times this week at the Southland. I think that it ranks with Jimmy Dorsey as being the best all around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts...
...There is an enormous difference," explains Director Hanson, "between music that is well-knit and sounds like Hell, and music that doesn't sound the way the composer intended it to sound. The first is competent musicianship; the second is not. . . . A competent composer deserves at least one hearing before an audience...
...Heldentenor Carl Hartmann, who had made previous U. S. appearances with the German Opera Company in 1931. As principal protagonist in one of the finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and pounded his anvil with energy and musicianship, peeled the armor from sleeping Brunnhilde (Marjorie Lawrence) with a taxidermist's skill. Vocally he wavered once or twice, but he lived up to the excellent reports of his ability which had leaked out from rehearsals...
...such a good bassoonist that Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky soon had him soloing with the orchestra. Last year Star Bassoonist Panenka began to play so poorly that Koussevitzky demoted him, threatened to fire him unless he improved. Suing for divorce in Dedham. Mass, last week. Bassoonist Panenka blamed his failing musicianship on his wife Rosa who, he alleged, threw dishes, slammed doors and whistled while he practiced. Divorce was granted...