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Apollo Sees Red Norvo In PreviewBy BILL LONGandBARBARA JACOBS• Red Norvo's band is about the oest m the country for its size,” states Ad Mueller, leader of the Townsmen. “The arrangements are terrific and the brass section sounds like five instead of three.” Norvo is scheduled as feature attraction for the All-College Christmas formal to be held December 14 under a canopy of mistletoe in the Men’s Building.Tickets have been on sale at Peters for two days and are already one third gone, according . to Pete Williams, publicity director. Williams announces that I the affair will be a no corsage! dance. I -II“King” Gives PreviewThe “King of the Xylophone” !offered a preview of his “relaxed rhythm” Wednesday at the Apollo, and according to Mueller proved that his outfit has a “swell personality.” Vocalist Linda Keene comes from New Orleans, and, says Norvo, “is definitely not for sale.”. INorvo’s first jobs were with radio and vaudeville shows, but drumming up trade over the radio for washing machines proved uninteresting, so he began organizing a band. Norvo claims his three man brass section has 1 enough oomph to drown out 1Sousa. I 1Opposes Classical SwingOn the serious side, the 1 World’s Greatest Xylophonist” : is definitely against arranging1 classical music for swing. “There are still enough new melodies floating around through the ether 1 which can be adapted to swing without borrowing from the old masters.” I1Promises Good MusicWednesday night Norvo expressed his appreciation for the way the college turned out for J him, and promised a real program of good dance music, plus some hot numbers on the wood-hox for the All-College formal. He also expressed a desire to arrive early on December 14 to go on a specially conducted tour through the “Con,” and dig the piano majors out of Chopin before they go completely nuts.Plays Swing FirstNorvo was one of the first orchestra leaders to play music in a m°d( rn tempo and in its present form. Billed four years ago as Rcd Norvo and his Swing Septet, he was the first to use swing in the title billing.
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Oberlin Review
Oberlin, Ohio, US
Fri, Dec 06, 1940
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