Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week for a vote to override the President's veto. Of the 280, 153 wanted to override, 127 said nay. The motion failed for lack of the required two-thirds. Representative Francis Walter, Democrat, of Easton, Pa. (ex-New Dealer who took up the bill when Goodman Logan died), promised to carry on next session. Prospects were that some compromise measure would be cobbled together...
Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington and Benjamin David ("Benny"') Goodman are the ablest U. S. jazz band leaders now shaking a stick. Both are hard-working and musicianly; both are money-making veterans. Last week the Duke and Benny both made off-beat appearances...
...Benny Goodman made a long-heralded appearance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as clarinet soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in Mozart's rippling Concerto in A Major, Debussy's First Rhapsody. No one should have been surprised. Trained in his youth by a Chicago Symphony clarinetist, Franz Schoepp, Benny Goodman can tootle with the two or three best in the world. Critics could find little fault with his playing of Mozart and Debussy-unless it was a slight excess of refinement and dignity...
...Benny Goodman wants to commission clarinet works by such contemporaries as Prokofieff, William Walton, Aaron Copland. But last week he was busy with his new orchestra. When he was ill last summer with sciatica, for which he underwent an operation at the Mayo Clinic, Goodman disbanded his men, starting rumors that he was through. The new 15-man band, now to be heard on Columbia records, has a new, richer style, which Benny Goodman says is not swing. But it is still Goodman...
...Harlem and Lazy Rhapsody, plus an article on the Duke by John Hammond, who is billed as "America's Greatest Jazz Authority." They're wrong, he's the second greatest. I'm the greatest ... Bela Bartok's Contrasts For Violin, Piano, and Clarinet, features Bartok, Szigeti, and Benny Goodman. This is awfully interesting stuff besides giving a pretty good idea of Benny's all round musical ability (COLUMBIA...