Word: instrumentalists
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...these solos, no instrumentalist will sound more than three notes and will mostly play just one note. William J. Reinhardt '47 will come up from New York and may play the world's largest tuba in one solo...
...Best instrumentalist: Benny Goodman...
Died. John Philip Sousa, 77, bandmaster, composer, novelist, "March King of America"; of heart disease; in Reading, Pa. Born in Washington, D. C. of a Bavarian mother and a Portuguese father, he was a precocious instrumentalist. At 25 he became the leader of the U. S. Marine Band. The inadequate pay of its members later drove him to form his own band. A versatile musician, he composed over 300 pieces, 100 of them marches. His "The Stars and Stripes Forever" netted $300,000 in royalties. A crack shot and a finished equestrian, he also wrote The Transit of Venus...
...every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music and great speech; so that the great singer, the great instrumentalist, might have all future generations of men for his audience. So I thought and dreamed. Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man than ever before in history. I gave them the motion picture. At first I thought...