Word: styling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur Shaw. Everyone in the business knows about them and allows for them. Shaw had been playing for enough years when he started as a leader to know what he was up against. The plain facts are that he didn't have any guts. Goodman didn't change his style to get to the top--he stuck to his guns and starved far longer than Shaw to get to the top. Count Basie played at $18 a week for six years before getting anywhere. Even sweet bands like Sammy Kaye were broke, but didn't bellyache. The show business demands...
...Strawinsky influence" is one of the most talked about aspects of modern music. It is so important that an analysis of the style of a contemporary composer more often than not contains some comparison with the style of Strawinsky...
...article betrays your lack of acquaintance with harpsichord music: otherwise you would not speak of its performance as a novelty. The best boner is "Most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano"; to, that one should add: with indefensible violence to its texture and style...
...among the nightclubs. True, Mr. Lowther was getting pretty well along in years to be called, as his lawyer called him, "the kid." True, Eileen and George had been photographed together in nightclubs, and had been seen together for some time, nor was the illusion aided when the Hat Style News Bureau released a picture showing Mr. Lowther modeling one of John-Frederics' new creations...
Last week a few lark-notes of new-style Russian music were heard in the U. S.: the overture to an opera, Gulsara, by Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere, veteran Soviet composer and professor at the Moscow Conservatory. No streamlined Eastern orchestra gave it its first U. S. hearing, but the wide-awake, six-year-old Kansas City Philharmonic under cigar-puffing U. S. Conductor Karl Krueger. Conductor Krueger's first cellist, Frank Sykora, onetime pupil of Composer Gliere, had wangled the manuscript out of Russia. An audience of 2,500 Kansas Citizens turned out to hear the overture, and agreed...