A Salute to the Golden Age of American Popular Music
We salute the music from Broadway, Hollywood, New Orleans, Tin Pan Alley and the "melody makers;" i.e. the bands and singers that brought the music to us via the radio, recordings and live events in the period from the 1920's to the 1960's. This is the golden period of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, etc.
One of the top ten bands of the Big Band Era was clearly led by Artie Shaw. Artie, of course, is remembered for his fabulous music...."Stardust" and Begin The Beguine" are two of the greatest big band recordings of all time. At a recent lecture I gave on the Big Band Era, many in the audience were also very impressed with an important side of Artie's personal life, the fact that he was married eight times and the fame of his brides.
They included actresses Lana Turner (wife No. 3, 1940), Ava Gardner (No. 5, 1945), Evelyn Keyes (No. 8, 1957) and novelist Kathleen Winsor, author of the 1944 best-seller “Forever Amber” (No. 6, 1946).
Lana Turner and Artie Shaw
Here's the complete list (from Wiki); A self-proclaimed "very difficult man," Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns (1932–33; annulled); Margaret Allen (1934–37; divorced); actress Lana Turner (1940; annulled); Betty Kern (1942–43; divorced), the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern; actress Ava Gardner (1945–46; divorced); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor (1946–48; annulled); actress Doris Dowling (1952–56; divorced); and actress Evelyn Keyes(1957–85; divorced).
He had one son, Steven Kern, with Betty Kern, and another son, Jonathan Shaw (a well-known tattoo artist who founded Fun City Tattoo), with Doris Dowling.The marriage to Keyes, best known for playing the middle of the three O’Hara sisters in “Gone With the Wind,” lasted the longest, until 1985, but they led separate lives for much of that time. “I like her very much and she likes me, but we’ve found it about impossible to live together,” he said in a 1973 interview.
Ava and Lana
Both Lana Turner and Ava Gardner later described Shaw as being extremely emotionally abusive. His controlling nature and incessant verbal abuse in fact drove Turner to have a nervous breakdown, soon after which she divorced him.
Note: With that many ex-wives, collecting alimony in most cases, it is not surprising that his theme song was "Nightmare!" When asked why he married so many times....his answer..."Because they asked me!"
With sales of his music dwindling and after appearing in several poorly received films, Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971. Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several albums, scoring a Top 40 hit with "(Theme From) New York, New York" in 1980. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally, until a short time before his death in 1998.
"It Had to Be You" is a popularsong written by Isham Jones, with lyrics by Gus Kahn. It was first published in 1924. Why do I do, just as you say, why must I just, give you your way Why do I sigh, why don't I try - to forget It must have been, that something lovers call fate Kept me saying: "I have to wait" I saw them all, just couldn't fall - 'til we met It had to be you, it had to be you I wandered around, and finally found - the somebody who Could make me be true, and could make me be blue And even be glad, just to be sad - thinking of you Some others I've seen, might never be mean Might never be cross, or try to be boss, but they wouldn't do For nobody else, gave me a thrill - with all your faults, I love you still It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ON LAURA AINSWORTH’S STELLAR DEBUT CD
Texas-based singer Laura Ainsworth is back in the studio this month with her partner, producer/arranger/pianist/Dallas Jazz Musician of the Year Brian Piper, recording “Necessary Evil,” the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed debut, “Keep It To Yourself.” To celebrate her sophomore album, Eclectus Records is offering a special holiday discount price on her debut CD of only $7.97, or $9.99 for the download, at CDBaby.com.
The daughter of the late, legendary big band saxophonist/clarinetist/arranger Billy Ainsworth, who was playing with Tommy Dorsey behind Frank Sinatra at age 17, Laura grew up watching her dad back such jazz royalty as Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett and Mel Torme. The Great American Songbook is in her blood. On “Keep It To Yourself,” she breathes new life into both standards and obscurities, from “Midnight Sun” to “He’s So Unusual,” while putting a classic, retro jazz spin on newer songs, such as the darkly hilarious title track and Marshall Crenshaw’s rocker, “Fantastic Planet of Love,” reimagined as a space-age lounge jazz battle between Piper’s ultra-cool electric organ runs and Noel Johnston’s out-of-this-world electric guitar.
With backing from such stellar sidemen as bassist John Adams, percussionist Mike Drake and sax/clarinet virtuoso Chris McGuire, plus special guests, guitarist Chris Derose and violinist Milo Deering of the hot fusion band Beatlegras, “Keep It To Yourself” came out of nowhere to score worldwide airplay and stellar reviews:
"You can keep all those pop divas. The only one for me is Laura Ainsworth...Ainsworth has beauty, brains, sophistication and comic timing that make her a total performance package...A wonderful modern interpreter of the Great American Songbook as well as thoroughly modern styles." -- Eric Harabadian, Jazz Inside
"Ainsworth’s voice is sublime as it caresses top-notch musicianship by a slew of southwest jazz players...It’s a very warm, elegant album with just enough big stage flair."-- Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News
"…Weaves past and present with stunning power…It might not be long before Dallas is not just known for its oil, Cowboys, and J.R. Ewing but a funny lady with a jewel of a voice..." -- Robert Sutton, JazzCorner.com
"Singing in a satiny, impossibly old-fashioned, nearly three-octave voice, Ainsworth is the very portrait of West Coast cool…” Her update of Skylark is “the transcendent moment every singer hopes for when they dig out one of those dusty, decades-old favorites…The results are devastatingly beautiful, nakedly honest, and a powerful argument for the ageless compositions that Ainsworth so clearly treasures...” -- Nick DeRiso, SomethingElseReviews.com
“A spectacular CD...Takes the ambiance of the '40's and '50's supper clubs/bands and elegantly mingles that feel with modern day flair." – RadioIndy.com
Look for Laura Ainsworth’s new CD, “Necessary Evil,” coming in mid-2013. And stock up on the ultimate romantic stocking stuffer, her debut CD, “Keep It To Yourself,” just $7.97 through December at CDBaby.com.
Singer/songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway joins the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for the pops program Holidays with the NJSO on Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 3 p.m. at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Cincinnati Pops conductor John Morris Russell, who last led the NJSO in a classical program in March 2012, conducts the holiday program, which also features the Masterwork Chorus. This performance is presented by State Theatre and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Tickets range from $20-88.
Callaway, a prolific cabaret performer and songwriter well-known to Broadway audiences, takes center stage for a concert of holiday and pops classics. She brings her trademark holiday improvisation and her interpretations of songs including “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Carol of the Bells”—these performances with full orchestra bring out a special dimension in her lush, rich vocals.
The program will feature the Masterwork Chorus in holiday favorites including the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, “Deck the Halls” and “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” The NJSO also performs Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Dance of the Tumblers” and more.
“Stars and Stripes” , London, Wednesday, September 6, 1944, page 4
WAR-KRAFT MUSIC HALL
BING CROONS, NAZIS SWOON – AT LEAST PWB HOPES SO
By Robert Musel United Press Staff Writer
While Hitler fooled around with buzz-bombs and pickaback planes the U. S. unleashed a real secret weapon at Germany – Der Bingle. Der Bingle is what the Germans call it. Back home it’s Bing Crosby.
Der Bingle was launched at the Wehrmacht from the studio of the American Broadcasting System in Europe. It was beautiful to see and hear, and experts of the Psychological Warfare Bureau said its effect would be beautiful too.
Der Bingle astounded front-line observers by using reasonably good German. Since he doesn’t speak German, Der Bingle was asked how come. “I don’t do it with mirrors”, he said, “I do it with phonetics”.
Bing, consulting his phonetic chart, began “Hello German soldiers. Here speaks Bing Crosby. I’ve just arrived from America – the country where nobody is afraid of the Gestapo, where everybody has the right to say and write what he thinks”. Der Bingle, rippling through Teutonic gutterals with complete ease, told the Germans about the constitutional right of pursuit of happiness, adding “I hope sincerely that our rights and freedoms soon will be observed again in your country. That’s what we Americans are fighting for”.
Letting this sink in, Der Bingle signaled Cpl. Jack Russin, pianist of Major Glenn Miller’s band, and said “But I didn’t come here to preach. I came here to sing a few songs”. Bing then sang “Going My Way” from the film of the same name in which he starred, except that the lyrics were cleverly twisted so that the sense of the song was “come with me” – meaning out of Hitlerland and back to the free world.
After that, because many Europeans, such as forced laborers in Germany, understand some French, Bing did “The Last Time I Saw Paris”. His phonetic French was not bad either, but possibly because of the overwhelming effect of using the language for the first time, Crosby seemed to sound a little bit like Charles Boyer.
A typist passing by asked what was going on.
“Bing Crosby is singing to the Nazis” she was told.
This is from “Stars and Stripes”, London, Monday, August 21, 1944, page 2. The headline was "THE KIND OF BRASS WE GO FOR GI FEET TAP OUT HIS PAYCHECK AS MILLER PLAYS IT HOT, SWEET" By Peter Lisagor Stars and Stripes Staff Writer.
A LIBERATOR BASE, Aug. 20 – Maj. Glenn Miller, still scorching his trombone with sweet breaks, has brought his magical arrangements and a 45-man band of GIs to the swing-hungry ETO, and if luck holds he hopes to offer two Continental concerts for an all soldier audience – in Paris and Berlin. In a room marked “Gentlemen” – the only place he could be separated from throngs of idolators and autograph seekers (it was crowded but the jostling was more purposeful) – Miller told how thrilled he was by his present mission. “Gen. Doolittle put it best,” Miller said “when he told us that every soldier over here is bucking for one thing – to get home. He can’t do that until the job is done, so the next best thing is to bring a little bit of home to him. That’s our mission”.
By way of fulfilling it, Miller confines his concerts to the old familiar tunes, each with their thousands of memories for the soldier. “They haven’t heard the new tunes” he explained, “but ‘String of Pearls’, ‘In the Mood’, ‘Cow-Cow Boogie’, ‘Moonlight Serenade’ and ‘Chattanooga Choo-Choo’ remind them of the days and nights they treasured. And the lads eat it up”.
Miller, whose band was tops in the U. S. for three years before he volunteered for the Army, he was over age at the time, used to count the house in civilian life – “every head meant about 60 cents to me” – but now, he says, his reward comes from the eager faces, alive and thankful for the memories. “The best night’s pay I ever got was watching those faces light up when we played,” he said. “I feel now as though I am doing something very worthwhile.”
He wants no controversy with Sigmund Romberg and the other long-haired musicians back home who claim the GI will want musical sedatives other than jive after the war. His answer is simply “let them bring that kind of music over here and see for themselves.”
Miller thinks his GI band is better than the one that brought him fame in the States. He has a string section of 20 men – drawn from the Cleveland, Boston and New York Philharmonic orchestras – so called “long-hairs” who, as one of them put it, are delighted because Miller is a real musician and he knows what those boys out there want.”
Five members of the band played with Miller as civilians – among them S/Sgt. Jimmy Priddy on the trombone, M/Sgt. Zeke Zerchy on the trumpet and S/Sgt. “Trigger” Alpert on the bass. Pianist Sgt. Mel Powell was with Benny Goodman. S/Sgt. Hank Freeman was first sax with Artie Shaw, Sgt. Bobby Nichols was a trumpeter with Vaughn Monroe, Sgt. Bernie Privin played trumpet with Charlie Barnet, Goodman and Shaw and Sgt. Carmen Mastren was a guitarist with Tommy Dorsey. One of them, T/Sgt. Ray McKinley, led a well-known band of his own after years on the drums with the Dorsey Bros. and later with Jimmy Dorsey’s crew, and his drum solo is the highlight of the Miller program.
Also in the organization – which is really a complete radio production outfit – are T/Sgt. Jerry Gray, an arranger with both Miller and Shaw in civilian life, who wrote “String of Pearls” and “Here We Go Again” and made the famous arrangements of “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” for Miller and “Begin the Beguine” for Shaw; arrangers S/Sgt. Ralph Wilkinson, with Raymond Page and Andre Kostelanetz, and M/Sgt. Norman Leyden, who directed the music for Moss Hart’s “Winged Victory.” Lt. Don Haynes, Miller’s civilian manager, is his Army “booking agent.”
At this base, the heavy bomber group under Col. Luther J. Fairbanks of Burt, Iowa celebrated its 100th mission – and Miller’s band was the big event. In a giant hangar more than 3,000 GIs and their gals weaved and writhed like an agitated sea as Miller and his men went “In the Mood”. This was a Saturday night in Duluth, Atlanta, Portland, Punxutawney, Pa., and 3,000 other places in America, and one look at the sea of faces explained Miller’s “it’s the best night pay I ever got.”
News of a big band concert in Port Colborne, Canada, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012 with the Toronto All-Star Big Band. They will take the stage with a joyful Christmas concert.... A Swingin’ Christmas.
The show promises to capture the warmth, joy and magic of the holiday season and feature songs from Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller and other celebrated favorites. The group will also perform a famous rendition of songs from The Nutcracker. Here they play "Jumpin' At The Woodside."
The Toronto All-Star Big Band is renowned for its revival of 1930s and 1940s big band jazz music.
Christmas is “all about happiness and love and joy, and giving,” said the band’s artistic director, Zygmunt Jedrzejek, adding the group’s performance at the Roselawn Centre will be infused with all those things.
While most currently popular tribute bands strive to emulate such groups as The Beatles, Rolling Stones or ABBA, the Toronto All-Star Big Band plays the music of early 20th-century jazz greats as they would have performed it themselves.
“The authenticity, I think, is what draws the people,” he said, adding many still love the music of jazz’s golden era, and the band loves playing it.
Though the Toronto Big Band usually attracts middle-aged and more mature adults, Jedrzejek said he thinks about how to draw younger generations to listen to the tunes of jazz’s golden age. There are many subgenres of jazz, such as swing.
“The idea is, how do we show young people where the tradition started?”
The concert runs from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. To order tickets, please call the Roselawn Centre box office at 905-834-7572. Box office hours are Tuesday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Concerts produced in association with: BMCC TRIBECA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers Street (212) 220 -1460www.TribecaPAC.org
The inaugural edition of the Exit 0 International Jazz Festival kicks off November 9-11, 2012 in the National Historic Landmark City of Cape May, NJ
In less than six weeks, the City of Cape May will be the stage for the inaugural edition of the Exit 0 International Jazz Festival, November 9-11. More than 100 internationally known musicians will perform more than 50 shows over the course of the Festival, with performances taking place in intimate club venues and on the Main Stage of the Cape May Convention Hall during this three-day event.
Headlining the Festival on the Main Stage at Convention Hall will be The Sun Goddess Tour starring Jazz legend and three-time Grammy Award Winner RAMSEY LEWIS AND HIS ELECTRIC BAND on Saturday at 7:30 PM and 9:30PM. Opening the Festival on Friday at 8:00 PM and 10:15PM will be Philadelphia native son and Grammy award winning jazz bassist, Christian McBride and his quintet - Inside Straight. And a very special and rare jazz session will take place on Saturday afternoon at noon when Chilean vocalist Claudia Acuna performs with her quartet followed by the 17-man strong Captain Black Big Band, led by jazz pianist Orrin Evans and featuring Nicholas Payton.
Club venues up and down Beach Avenue in Cape May will provide intimate settings throughout the three-day festival include: Boiler Room @ Congress Hall, CARNEY’S, Carney’s Other Room, Martini Beach, Sea Salt @ Ocean Club and Aleathea’s @ Inn of Cape May. Performing in the clubs will be world class artists like Nicholas Payton, Mark Murphy, Bobby Broom Deep Blue Organ Trio, the Pedrito Martinez Group, Henry Cole & Afrobeat Collective, Ben Williams & Sound Effect, The Stooges Brass Band, Antonio Sanchez Migration, Joe Krown Organ Trio, Marcus Strickland, and more.
Jazz is no stranger to the City of Cape May with a previous festival having run for 17 years. The November edition of the Exit 0 International Jazz Festival is the inaugural event of a planned series of festivals to take place bi-annually in the Nation’s Oldest Seaside Resort. Spy Boy Productions, producer of the Festival, is committed to bringing a world-class festival to Cape May, which is ideally situated on the east coast with easy access to all major cities. “Music has such a great capacity to bring people together, and the festivals that resonate with their audience seem to be able to bring out what is best in both the audience and the musicians,” stated Michael Kline, President of Spy Boy Productions.
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News From The Road by John Tyler
September 2012
September introduced three new members of the Glenn Miller Orchestrato our fans. Jonathan McQuade on trumpet from Salem, Oregon via Northern Illinois University, James Navan on piano of Port Charlotte, FL who holds a BA in Music Performance/Jazz Studies from the University of Central Florida and Gabe Carson in the saxophone section on second tenor from Winter Park, FL, a graduate of the University of Miami with a BA Music performance.
It has been a busy month taking the GMO from Washington DC to Ontario, Canada to Colorado and Wyoming. Coming off an August work break the GMO resumed touring with two nights of dining and dancing at The Carlyle Club in Alexandria, VA on September 6th and 7th. The Carlyle Club has become a regular stop for the GMO. On the 8th there was a private dinner dance at the Doylestown Country Club. The 10th brought the GMO to Resorts in Atlantic City. September 11th, 12th, and 13th were full house performances at Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe, PA another regular stop for the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
September 14 was the Riviera Theatre North Tonawanda, NY a 1920s vaudeville and movie theatre with a working 1926 Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. In the 1920s and 1930s these theatre organs were produced and shipped all over the world from the factory in North Tonawanda, NY only a few blocks from the Riviera Theatre. This organ was used as a demonstration instrument for many sales as customers imagined how it would sound in their theatre back home. The Organist provided a demonstration of his own with preshow music. These community theatres across the country all seem to have some unique feature of preservation and here the Wurlitzer Theatre Organ is faithfully maintained by volunteers keeping it in fabulous working order.
September 15 Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY; September 17 two performances at Stage West dinner theatre in Mississauga, ON, Canada; September 18 Carmens Banquet & Convention Ctr Hamilton, ON; September 19 The Imperial Theatre Sarnia, ON. The review written on this performance by David Nichols for the local news paper has been posted on The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Facebook page and gives a very precise and accurate description of a performance that the Glenn Miller Orchestra gives day in and day out regardless of the venue or size of the audience. If you haven't seen the review, it is posted at the bottom of this section.
On September 21 the Glenn Miller Orchestra performed at the Donna Reed Theatre in Denison, IA. The Donna Reed foundation was founded after her death and maintains this historic theatre. Ms. Reed was raised on a farm about eight miles south of Denison where as a young women she performed all the chores children had on the farm of the 1920s and 1930s from milking cows to whatever was needed to be done. She would come to this theatre as a child to watch movies and see live performances and dream of one day being a star. Her dream came true in Hollywood working in many films with the greatest stars of the time and winning an Oscar as best supporting actress in From Here to Eternity. Ms. Reed never forgot her home town of Denison which was not unlike the imaginary town she and Jimmy Stewart lived in for the Holiday Classic It's A Wonderful Life and when she passed she willed her Oscar to the City of Denison. This theatre and the work which continues here is part of her legacy.
From Denison, IA the GMO traveled to Torrington, WY for a performance at Eastern Wyoming College September 23rd. September 25th performance was at the Mary W. Sommervold Hall Sioux Falls, SD. The GMO meets thousands of fans new and longtime fans, young and old everywhere we go and sometimes people who have had distinguished careers. We had the pleasure of meeting George McGovern at this performance. Besides being a US Senator and the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1972 Mr. McGovern is a veteran who flew 35 missions over German Occupied Europe in a B24 Liberator during the Second World War and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, amongst other medals, for safely landing his badly damaged aircraft and saving the lives of his crew. The GMO recognizes US military veterans at every performance and there are often World War II veterans like Mr. McGovern who come out, say hello and have a story to tell.
The next stop was Johnson Fine Arts Center Aberdeen, SD September 26th. September 29th performance was at the Historic Paramount Theatre in downtown Denver, CO. September 30th rounded off the month in Laramie, WY at the Laramie Plains Civic Center.
During September the GMO has traveled from Alexandria, VA near the Nation's Capital, sea level in Atlantic City, NJ, into Ontario, Canada and up to Laramie Wyoming at 7165 feet in elevation between the Snowy Range and the Laramie Range nestled against the Rocky Mountains. With performances in 8 States, passage through several others and four performances in Ontario Canada the GMO continues to work for nearly full to sold out houses of very enthusiastic audiences.
If you follow the GMO on Facebook at The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra page http://www.facebook.com/glennmillerorchestrayou will have seen the photos and audience comments. Knowing that many of you do not, we will continue to take you on tour with the GMO with the website touring page www.glennmillerorchestra.comand these newsletters. We look forward to performing for you.
Glenn Miller Orchestra Concert Review by David Nichols (Sept. 19, 2012)
A string of musical pearls was presented last night at the Imperial Theatre to a crowd of over 600 enthusiastic music lovers.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra played with passion and precision. Dynamic extremes from the whispering muted trumpets and softly brushed cymbals to the full unleashed power of the band created a dramatic palette of instrumental colour. Even the fast trill-like vibrato, a classic trait of the Glenn Miller sound, was so together that many listeners thought they must have been enhanced by a Hammond-like synthesizer. There were no electronic aids here - just a remarkable display of instrumental expertise and expression.
Irene Burns demonstrated marvelous voice control and character from the deep and lyrical tones of "I Know Why" to the more direct and "out there" resonance of "That's Sabotage."
A highlight of the night was the orchestra's performance with the "Moonlight Serenaders," a vocal quintet, which shone especially in their rendition of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo."
The Glenn Miller Orchestra is blessed to have Nick Hilscher not only as its brilliant director, but as a dynamic vocal soloist, and gifted showman. Nick's warm introductions of the band members and invitations for them to solo flowed with the music, and his enlightening historical anecdotes brought the Glenn Miller era to life.
After the show, at the SCA reception for the band, I asked Nick how the band kept up such a high energy level considering that they are on the road for 42 weeks a year, and each week they present 4 or 5 concerts. Nick's reply was, "We all love what we're doing and feel lucky to be able to perform so often."
The final two selections on the program were "In The Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade." The solos in these last two works were a more obvious expression of how a band canput its own signature on a chart and still support the integrity of the music. Although the audience left the theatre to enter an overcast sky, the sound of moonlight was still in the air.
The program ended with a brilliant encore, "Here We Go Again." The Sarnia Concert Association's 77th season of celebrating world class music is off to a rousing start.
UPCOMING GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA SHOWS
10/23/12 Gallo Center For The Arts, Modesto, CA 7:30 PM Concert
10/26/12 Fox Tucson Theatre with The Diamonds, Tucson, AZ
7 PM Concert
10/27/12 Yavapai College Performance Hall with The Diamonds,
Prescott, AZ 7:30 PM Concert
10/28/12 Chandler Center For the Arts with The Diamonds,
Chandler, AZ 3 PM Concert
11/01/12 Performing Arts Center of Pacific Grove, Pacific Grove, CA
7 PM Concert
11/02/12 Clark Center, Arroyo Grande CA, 7 PM Concert
11/03/12 High Street Arts Center, Moorpark, CA 2 PM Concert
11/04/12 Del Norte High School, San Diego, CA 7 PM Concert
11/07/12 West Ranch High School Theater, Stevenson Ranch, CA
7 PM Concert
11/08/12 Palm Springs High School Auditorium, Palm Springs, CA
7 PM Concert
11/09/12 Visalia Fox Theatre, Visalia, CA 7 PM Concert
11/10/12 Walnut High School Performing Arts Center, Walnut, CA
3 PM Concert
11/10/12 Walnut High School Performing Arts Center, Walnut, CA
7 PM Concert
11/14-12/15/12 Japan Tour 2012
12/18/12 Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center, Cambridge, OH, 7:30 PM Concert
12/20/12 Performing Arts Center, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 7:30 PM Concert
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New Question: Glenn, being a man of patriotism and action, began a radio series for the men in our training camps. For each program he selected five camps, which were asked to conduct polls for their favorite songs. The five would be played on the air; listeners would be asked to vote for their favorites, and the camp that had proposed the winning song would be awarded a combination radio-phonograph and fifty records, not necessarily all by the Glenn Miller band. Name the radio series that was dedicated to those in service.
Question: Music publishing could be a profitable venture for band leaders and in the fall of 1940 Glenn started his own music-publishing company. What was the name of his company?
Answer: Mutual Music Society.
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