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...technical perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285 and the Roussel Serenade, Op 30 were played in combination with a small string ensemble; the Three Pieces by Walter Piston was a woodwind trio,--flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This composition, one of Piston's earliest, has a humorous grotesqueness and vitality apparently much appreciated by the Cambridge audience, for it received more applause than any other on the program, Dr. Piston rising twice to acknowledge...
Died. Thomas F. Dorsey Sr., 70, music teacher and school bandmaster, father of famed Swingsters Tommy (trombone) and Jimmy (sax & clarinet); in Philadelphia. He started giving his sons woodwind lessons when they were little boys...
...boyhood I had a chance of being qualified as an oboist," he recalled, "and I should have jumped at it if I could have obtained ?14, which was the price of a second-hand oboe seventy years ago. For want of that sum I was lost to woodwind forever and had to adopt a profession in which the equipment was 6 pennyworth of stationery...
...Minor (Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky ; Victor; 3 sides). Eleventh, and most familiar, of the dozen "harmonious raptures" of the red-bearded Venetian priest whose music Bach so often transcribed, recorded (before Boss Petrillo's ban) by the Boston Symphony's matchless strings, with some woodwind help...
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Oboist Marcel Tabuteau, Clarinetist Bernard Portnoy, Bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, Hornist Mason Jones; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A sweet, 18th-Century woodwind "bash" (jam session), spotlighting the pure purlings and tootlings of Philadelphia's high-priced soloists...