Word: stringes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ernest Bloch: Quartet (Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: 12 sides). Composed in 1916, when musical Zionist Bloch was hurling his Hebraic thunderbolts with youthful fervor, his lone quartet has waited until now for its first (a fine) recording...
Notes between the notes: It seems more and more definite that Artic Shaw is coming back into the business. Rumors have him leading bands ranging from Mexican rhumba outfits and hot string ensembles to conducting a full symphony orchestra. Rockwell O'Keefe agency in Chicago says that it will deliver Art Shaw and band in time for contracted date in February. Big stuff of same agency in New York, Mike Niedorf, claims that this is bunk, that if and when Shaw forms a new band he will be delivered otherwise not . . . Columbia expects to release soon a piano album...
...this while Robert Ley tossed out pronouncements which tended to set him up as a second-string oracle. When the Party wanted discipline, he ranted against nicotine, alcohol and debauchery (despite his own proclivity for liquor, generously indulged on "Strength Through Joy" outings). When Germany needed manpower, he lectured the Many Children League on that "natural, healthy" phenomenon, illegitimacy (see col. 2). When Lebensraum (living space) and the Communist menace were in the air, he proclaimed: "In Germany 147 men have to live on one square kilometre-in Russia only nine. This may be borne for a time by superhuman...
Stressing long shots rather than a short passing attack (on the theory that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points), Teacher Bee has developed team after team of dead-eyed marksmen. Three years ago, a team of Beemen ran up a string of 43 victories before finally losing to a steaming-hot Stanford bunch led by famed Shooter Hank Luisetti...