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...University of Minnesota, addicts of Beat Me Daddy Eight to a Bar, Scrub Me Mamma With a Boogie Beat, etc. got a university charter for a Boogie Woogie Club. At its first meeting, 300 students heard a new tune, Beat Me Dimitri- tribute to Conductor Mitropoulos of the Minneapolis Symphony...
...Anyone who is revolted, as I am, by Stokowski's lurid transcriptions and feverish performances of Bach may be glad to hear that there is still someone floating around who has the taste to transcribe early music and not emerge with something different from the original. Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C., has made a firstrate transcription of a Frescobaldi toccata (Victor Record 4537), and he plays this mettlesome music with verve, but without the nervous mannerisms Stokowski puts in Bach--and that is something to get mildly excited about...
...years, a Chicago orchestra has held weekly rehearsals, given public concerts. Only its conductor (George Dasch, of Northwestern University) is a professional musician. Its founder was bass-playing George Lytton, president of the Hub stores. Now an orchestra of 115 Chicagoans, 25 of its players are presidents or vice presidents of businesses. A doctor plays the piccolo, a dentist the trombone, a poultry farmer the trumpet, a onetime steel puddler the oboe. A waiting list of 200 eyes the orchestra hungrily : from the list, new players are chosen when members die or cut too many rehearsals...
Last week the Chicago Business Men's Orchestra temporarily had a new conductor: old "Papa" Frederick Stock of the Chicago Symphony...
...Composer Nordoff all it could afford-$200-for 25 minutes of music, and he threw in a dozen extra minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with a few leers, about how an artist and his wife sell a picture to a dealer and his wife. Best of four set pieces...