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...musical background to Jack Webb's picture on TIME'S cover ... is decidedly clever but proves once more that few artists know how to read notes. Assuming that the notation of the "dum du dum dum" theme is in the bass clef (which is not indicated), the tones would be in major key instead of the intended minor, unless a flat sign were placed in front of the note B. It would have been quite easy to get along without any such "accidental" by simply putting the theme into the key of A minor instead of G minor...
...eight buildings with a genial but unchallenged authority. A big (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered man, he started each day by shaking hands with every child in the lower school-partly to put them at ease and partly to teach them good manners. He played the double bass in the school orchestra, gave a course in Shakespeare, taught an amiable sort of social philosophy under the title "Social Standards" (alias "S.S." or "Snappy Stories"). Though North Country Day goes in heavily for art, music and dramatics ("The avenues to the child's soul," says Smith), such activities...
Like many jazz pianists, Pennsylvania-born Alex Kallao uses string bass and drums to give his performance more body and bounce. His arrangements (of such standards as Tea for Two and Bewitched) usually begin with gentle but full-bodied harmonizations of the tune. Then, grinning toward the crowd, he "takes off" for a chorus or two of swift-moving improvisations that feature unerring cascades of notes in the right hand and ear-teasing harmonic changes beneath. His style is not yet so distinctive that a listener could identify him blindfolded, but his razzle-dazzle endings get him a big hand...
Woodwind compositions find their way into modern concert halls only infrequently; music for two bassoons practically never. Yet an entire literature exists for the "bass oboe"- as it is sometimes called-both solo and in ensemble. As Sunday night's program indicated, the great wealth of such music lies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; evidently it was the nineteenth that bannished bassoons from the recital stage to the Stygian regions of the orchestra...
Thou Swell (Beryl Booker Trio; Discovery). Slightly nervous but mighty high-flown ivory-tickling on another Rodgers & Hart oldie, with firm drum and bass support by an all-girl combo...