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BILL HARRIS (and his Conn 6H trombone) CONSISTENT POLL WINNERS! 1st place METRONOME-3rd straight year 1st place DOWN BEAT-4th straight year The fine Woody Herman band has a truly great trombone section .. .solid Conn ... with national poll winner Bill Harris as featured soloist and fellow artists Earl Swope and 011ie Wilson. Bill Harris says, "This new Conn 6H of mine is the greatest!" Visit your Conn dealer today. See for yourself what makes these new Conns the "Choice of the Artists." CONN BAND INSTRUMENT DIVISION C. G. CONN, LTD., 1223 CONN BUILDING, ELKHART, INDIANA Send 10c to CONN for auto- graphed photo of WOODY and BILL — or SECTION. WOODY HERMAN 100% CONN TROMBONE SECTION One of today's most exciting trombone sections is this Woody Herman group. Left to right, with their Conn trombones are: OLLIE WILSON (78H), BILL HARRIS (6H) and EARL SWOPE (6H). 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Some 5,600 students heard the concerts which were conducted e, fff by H. Arthur Brown ... The opening Winter Pop Concert of the Buffalo dr5i «fteer, Philharmonic Orchestra, directed 70e£ 'eseeter by its new assistant conductor, Henry Aaron, consisted of works by Viennese composers .. The THE MOUTHPIECE CHOICE Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra OF THE Saeo,édewe Stut ,t4 will lend especial significance to THROUGHOUT THE WORLD the Christmas season with a com- plete performance of Handel's "Messiah," on December 22nd ... A special Christmas concert by the Inglewood (California) Sym- phony includes a performance of Prokofiev's -Peter and the Wolf" "Drive-In Pops," presented by the Austin (Texas) Symphony Orchestra, November 13th, was held in the town's Drive-In Thea- AVAILABLE IN ALTO tre. The price of admission was TENOR AND BARITONE $1.50 per car, wagon or mule train. ACTUAL SIZE TENOR SHOWN After parking a conveyance in the stalls used for the movie perform- Eugene Jose Singer ances, occupants hooked up to individual loudspeakers to hear Sibelius' "Finlandia," Bizet's "L'Arlesienne WITH THESE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES Suite No. 2" and Strauss' "Emperor Waltz." Carrying out the note of * NEW DESIGN informality, the orchestra was attired in blue jeans .. The Royal Con- servatory Symphony Orchestra of Toronto gave the first of its new chil- * NEW PROPORTIONS dren's programs October 15th. These are designed as group-participation sessions for children aged six to twelve .. The newly organized Clarks- * NEW REVELATION TONE burg Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Eugene Jose Singer, performed Handel's "Messiah" at its December 5th concert .. Holst's CHAMBER "Christmas Day" will be presented at the Nashville Symphony's Christ- * NEW COMFORT HARD mas program December 20th ... In a concert November 13th, sponsored by the Recording and Transcription Fund, The Little Symphony of RUBBER LIP REST Worcester, Massachusetts, presented Dittersdorf, Mozart and Schubert MADE OF BELL METAL -- GOLD PLATED — EQUIPPED symphonies as well as works by the American composers Anderson WITH SINGLE SCREW LIGATURE, REED AND CAP and Gould. "LINK" MOUTHPIECES ARE USED BY MORE TOP NOTCH SOLOISTS ARTISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THAN ANY OTHER MAKE Rudolf Firkusny was soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Illinois Jacquet Vido Musso Hub Lytle November 20th. He gave the first performance anywhere of Bohuslav Flip Phillips Artie Drelinger Mario Rollo Martinu's Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra. The orchestra's new Coleman Hawkins Buddy Tate Ernie White conductor is Walter Hendl .. Ben Webster Earl Bostic Paul Bascomb Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Lester Young Joe Thomas Josh Jackson No. 2 was presented by Joseph Freddy Martin Dexter Gordon James Moody Battista as soloist with Tulsa Phil- Don Byas George Auld Chuck Gentry harmonic Orchestra (H. Arthur Corky Corcoran Sam Donahue Al Sears Brown, conductor) at their open- Dave Matthews Charlie Parker Johnny Mince ing concert this fall . .. Jesus Babe Rusin Andy Brown Peanuts Hucko Maria Sanroina was another pian- Charlie Barnet Arthur Rollini Robert Ashton ist to figure in the November Jerry Jerome Foots Thomas Jim Tyler concerts. He played the Tchai- AND MANY OTHERS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION kovsky Concerto in B flat minor with the Duluth Symphony Or- chestra on November 18th .. 7U, THE "SUPER" TONE MASTER Jacques Abram was piano soloist AT YOUR FAVORITE DEALER with the New York Philharmonic- Symphony November 26th, giving WRITE FOR NEW DESCRIPTIVE FOLDER the Britten Piano Concerto its first DEPT.I performance in America ... Violin soloist with the Minneapolis Sym- OTTO LINK CO. phony Orchestra in its November 1 17 WEST 48TH STREET • NEW YORK 19, N. Y. 11th concert was Rafael Druian, Rudolf Firkusay until recently concert master of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and now serving in that capacity with the Minneapolis Symphony .. Rudolf Serkin played Brahms' Second Piano »»;3004»-»*-worseremoces»fflee-beeffleeeese>>>>>>>>>>>>: 5 DECEMBER, 1949 Concerto in B flat major with the the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra she sings with the New Jersey Sym- Antonio Symphony Orchestra No- Cleveland Orchestra, George Sze11 will feature Marjorie Bernstein, con- phony in February Maria Jeritza vember 26th. conducting, at the concerts of No- cert mistress, and Dr. Herbert Neu- will introduce two songs dedicated vember 24th and 26th .. E. Power rath, Assistant Conductor, in the to her by Richard Strauss ... Donna NEW WORKS AND REVIVALS Biggs was the guest organist when Mozart Symphony Concertante .. Grescoe was violin soloist with the Norman Dello Joio's new Concer- Handel's Concerto for Organ and Wanda Landowska was harpsichord Town of Babylon Symphony Or- tante for Clarinet and Orchestra was Orchestra was presented by the soloist with the New York Philhar- chestra at its concert December 9th Evansville (Indiana) Philharmonic monic-Symphony November 17th in Lindenhurst, Long Island .