Word: cornet
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...profane. But what ultimately emerges is a tremulous song in praise of the Midwest, a region that has long needed a minnesinger. Harnack touches expertly on the deep small-town need to believe in such absurdities as 1) that little Joanie Henkman is the world's best cornet player, 2) that Ida Bean's goiter baffles the greatest brains in medicine, and 3) that if only Blacky Neuzig had been given his "big chance," he could have played major league ball. Iowa-born Author Harnack is married to Novelist Hortense Calisher and teaches English at Sarah Lawrence College...
...would have been easy to turn such a story (written by Mikhail Sholokhov, author of And Quiet Flows the Don) into an annoying cornet solo on the unbreakable spirit of Mother Russia. The horns are heard, of course, but Actor Bondarchuk's performance is far too good for them to be oppressive. His hero is a man; when fate reduces him to flotsam, it is a grievous loss, and when he finds the little boy, his relit face shows love. For the most part, Bondarchuk directs as well as he acts. Some of his visual effects are excellent...
Died. Dominic ("Nick") LaRocca, 71, whose all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band was among the first to walk the beat from New Orleans to Chicago in 1916, and who wrote Tiger Rag, Fidgety Feet and other jazz classics made famous by his blaring cornet; of congestive heart failure; in New Orleans...
...days, back in Cleveland's Modern Jazz Room, enthusiastic crowds of perhaps six couples used to gather to hear Cannonball (alto sax), and his brother Nat (cornet) launch into one of their driving versions of Cannonball's own Sermonette or I'll Never Stop Loving You. The crowd at the Workshop last week was closer to 200, and instead of sitting reflectively in their chairs, they were standing on them screaming. On the bandstand, Cannonball looked like a large, comfortable Buddha, sleepily contemplating some secret pleasure. But when he raised his hamlike right hand and with popping...
...fine old institution is "Schneider's Band," a motley crew that plays at various girls colleges or wherever a beer keg is found. There actually was a Professor Schneider at Harvard, Band members will tell you, and Johann Wolfgang Schneider's Silver Cornet Band was "perpetrated in 1807." The present band is the descendant of that group...