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Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto (Woody Herman Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia, 2 sides). On first hearing, a hackle-raiser, whether the listener is a lover of classics or a lover of jazz; but after the third or fourth playing it becomes an engaging experiment in classical dissonances impeccably played on jazz...
Soap operas, singing commercials, hillbilly music, and "too much talking" will make the average undergraduate turn elsewhere for his amusement according to information obtained by the Crimson Network in its recent college-wide radio listener poll.
Birth of the Soul. The theme of the greatest music is always the birth of the soul. Words can describe, painting can suggest, but music alone enables the listener to participate, beyond conscious thought, in this act. Beethoven's Violin Concerto is a work secular beyond question. But when...
Abie long since proved to be impervious to critical assault & battery. It made its author, Anne Nichols, a millionaire several times over with its six years on Broadway (1922-28), innumerable road tours and stock performances, foreign royalties, one previous movie (1928) and a radio soap opera (withdrawn last year...
Education of a Tramp. After the fourth grade in Pueblo, Colo., Damon Runyon's schooling ended, and his education began. His tutors (like "Our Old Man," as he later called his dad) were tramp printers who could quote the Bible, Shakespeare and Bob Ingersoll with equal conviction. From them...