"Ahhh Bach!"
(Actually, I'm partial to the fugue)
Speaking of "the jungled dischords of the clarinet," how abot B.G. in the Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria. I don't care if there is a couvert on top of the $1.75 for dinner. I'm there!
For the Samual Barber 'Adagio for Strings' article, I really wanted to be able to provide a link to a listenable copy of that piece. I got it saved to a file and ready to upload, but after a couple hours of effort I was unable to find a site where I could store it and link to FR. My best bet was fileden.com (another tip from CougarGA7) but I couldn't connect with my activating email to get started. If anyone knows how I can pull this off I would appreciate the help. Maybe I can still get it up in time for the Nov. 5 premier. Otherwise, I urge everyone unfamiliar with it to find a copy of 'Adagio for Strings,' by Samuel Barber and give it a listen. It is an amazing and important 20th century work. It has also been used as the score for several movies, most notably 'Platoon.' My version is by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, 1989.
Folks, look closely at the second column, first paragraph, first sentence. Though worded awkwardly by modern parlance, the word discrimination is used to indicate a good thing. As in someone with discriminating tastes.
I thought that to be an odd but interesting tidbit.
There’s too much sax and violins on radio.
"Ahhh Bach!"
(Actually, I'm partial to the fugue)
OH THE HORROR!!!!
How subtle.
Let's pass a law keeping negros from playing 'our' music.
But the author of the article needn't worry, black jazz musicians were already sowing the seeds of the demise of swing in the after hours clubs, bebop was right around the corner.
Not long after Munich Ribbentrop journeyed to Rome. His mind was “fixed” on war, Ciano noted in his diary of October 28.
The Fuehrer [the German Foreign Minister told Mussolini and Ciano] is convinced that we must inevitably count on a war with the Western democracies in the course of a few years, perhaps three or four . . . The Czech crisis has shown our power! We have the advantage of the initiative and are masters of the situation. We cannot be attacked. The military situation is excellent: as from September [1939] we could face a war with the great democracies.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 436
I see that there is an ad for the famous Keen’s Chop House, then in business for 53 years. I had dinner at the fine old pub style restaurant about 50 years ago, and it is still there. It is famous for mutton chops, and was originally a theatrical type place, from the time that NY’s theatre district was based in Herald Square, not Times Square.