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...discipleship under a Glenn Miller until the realization dawns that the acme of musical perfection in the four-beat tempo is hardly a deliciously impeccable saxophone section. But potentially there are other ways of putting jazz in a more satisfactory light with the general public, particularly through the medium of the theatre and the screen...
...forms in which he seemed to be more at home, the chamber sonata, the song, and the piano lyric. And I don't think that I am reading things into the music when I say that the Double Concerto has about it a sort of tiredness with the orchestral medium. Even more than in his other works, one senses a continued striving to meet the demands of the symphonic form (as Brahms conceived them), rather than a perfectly natural and creative use of the form. Instead of using the orchestra as an instrument of expression, Brahms makes it the goal...
...chief items of business scheduled for Friday night's meeting according to John Straus, '42, member of the club's chief committee, is the discussion of plans for the purchase of a new airplane for the club. Several medium weight ships are under consideration, and a choice is to be made among them...
...British were plainly no longer interested in their onetime King. This emeritus royalty was still a national embarrassment, but a fainter one. The British Embassy carefully pointed out that the Embassy dinner for the Windsors would be "medium-sized and private." The White House took this cue: the Duke and Duchess were invited only to a lunch with the President-almost the minimum courtesy permissible by diplomatic protocol. When the death of the President's brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt (see p. 17), made it necessary to cancel even this courtesy, a Presidential handshake was substituted. Their only...
Unorthodox is La Cava's method of making a picture. He believes that the screen is not (like the stage) an acting medium, that a scene plays itself. La Cava begins a picture by throwing away the script, keeping the bare outline of the plot and developing it spontaneously around the personalities of the actors he has selected. If a scene rings true, it is right; if not, the actor should not be forced to play it. He writes most of the new script himself...