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...after MacArthur's speech before Congress. Within 24 hours it was in the hands of California disc jockeys and shortly thereafter in record shops, selling an estimated 25,000 copies a day. Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those on sale by this week: Red Foley (Decca), Herb Jeffries (Coral), Vaughan Monroe (Victor), Bing Crosby (Decca...
Charles E. Ives's Third Symphony lay in his barn in Connecticut for 35 years before it got its first full performance in 1946. It won a Pulitzer Prize the next year. In Carnegie Hall last week, the ailing old (76) composer's Second Symphony, finished in 1901, finally came to judgment...
...kind of John Marin of music, quotes from anything, it is that old 19th Century standard, the Long Green Organ Book. If there is a "bad joke" anywhere, it comes in the rousing finale where Ives gets De Camptown Races, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean and some barn dance fiddling all going at once...
...also has a nervous condition which makes listening to music unbearable. The stoutest Yankee of all U.S. composers- a man who composed for love, sold insurance for a living-Ives now lives in strict retirement with his wife Harmony. His First Symphony, never performed, is still "out in the barn...
McGeorge Bundy, visiting lecturer on Government, termed the amendment an "unfortunate reflection" on Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, but said passing it now was "like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen...