[78-L] From Spirituals to Swing

[Bill McClung]

Nor does the Hammond biography, The Producer, mention a third FSTS concert.
Doesn't mean it wasn't being planned.  It just wasn't part of this
biography.


> [Original Message]
> From: Doug Pomeroy <pomeroyaudio at att.net>
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: 3/25/2009 3:53:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] From Spirituals to Swing
>
> Cary,
>
> New Masses was only involved with the 1938 concert.
> The 1939 concert was sponsored by the Theater Arts
> Committee, which may have had plans for a third, but
> Hammond's autobiography does not mention any
> such plans.
>
> Info about the Committee may probably be found at the
> wonderful Tamiment Library:
>
> http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/
>
> Good luck.
>
> Doug
>
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> Does anyone have information on a proposed third annual edition of  
> the "From Spirituals to Swing" concerts, promoted by New Masses  
> magazine? I have some information that a concert was being planned in  
> Los Angeles at the Philharmonic Auditorium in November 1940 but it  
> never came off.
>
> Cary Ginell
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