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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...does everything but think," Donald M. D. Thurber '40 stated yesterday while tending the machine that the Class Album Committee is using to tabulate the results of the Thurber Poll...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Minneapolis Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). In his first album with the Minneapolitans, Conductor Mitropoulos (TIME, April 24) proves himself tops, in batonistic oomph, gives this classic one of its finest recordings to date...
...Album of Shakespearean Song (Mordecai Bauman, baritone, Ernst Victor Wolff, harpsichordist; Columbia: 6 sides). Rather lugubriously sung anthology of Shakespeare ditties, most of whose settings (by Thomas Arne) were written in Georgian times, but some of which (It was a Lover and His Lass by Thomas Morley) may actually have been sung in Shakespeare's own productions...
This column wants to go on record, along with all the other critics, as saying that the Decca album of the Chicago Jazz Style released today is the greatest series of collected jazz over done. And that the individual records rank with almost anything that has heretofore been recorded...
Downbeat critic George Avakian (of Yale) picked the tunes and the musicians, supervised the recording and wrote the notes for the album. In short, thanks to Avakian, the musicians themselves, the Chicago tradition, and the courage of Decca in producing what many thought at first to be saleable only to a small group of enthusiasts, the public can get an album of playing in the true Chicago tradition. More than that, it can get a sense of jazz as it is really played at late-of-night sessions in out of the way bistros and honky-tonks. This is great...