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On a Blue and Moonless Night and Promises (Victor)—Victor wisely chose this as best of its June jazz crop, sent it to Record-of-the-Month Club members.
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me and Livin' in the Sunlight (Columbia)—Paul Whiteman offers elaborate orchestrations of The Big Pond hits.
The Moon is Low and Montana Call (Victor)—George Olsen's saxophones are particularly mellow in these Montana Moon pieces.
Worryin' Over You and You Will Come Back to Me (Brunswick)—Abe Lyman and every instrument in his California Orchestra wring dry two of the month's best tunes.
Blue Is the Night and Whippoorwill (Columbia)—The Ipana (toothpaste) Troubadours play the first in the grand manner; Whippoorwill is inescapable in current popular releases.
I Like to Do Things for You and Happy Feet (Victor)—Leo Reisman present's smooth, teasing versions of the best tunes from King of Jazz.
Other good dance tunes: Ragamuffin Romeo and I Like to Do Things for You (Columbia), Reminiscing and The Verdict is Life (Victor), Alone with My Dreams and So Sympathetic (Brunswick), I'm in the Market for You and Just Like in a Story Book (Victor), Reminiscing and Telling It to the Daisies (Brunswick).
School Contest
A 700-piece orchestra, probably the largest ever gathered together, gave a concert in Lincoln, Neb. last week under Conductor George Dasch of the Chicago Little Symphony. It made a grand and noisy conclusion to the second annual national high school orchestra contest, held under the auspices of the National Society for the Advancement of Music. The players were high-school students from all over the U. S. who, prior to the amalgamation of their talents, had competed with the following results: Class A orchestras—Lincoln, first (Lincoln won also last year at the contest held in Iowa City); Hammond, Ind., second; the John Adams High School of Cleveland, third; Class B orchestras— Dearborn, Mich., first, the Lew Wallace High School of Gary, Ind., second; Class C—Stanhope, Iowa, first; Partridge, Kan., second. Judges were Mr. Dasch, E. H. Wilcox of the University of Iowa, Carl Busch of Kansas City, Rudolph Ganz of Chicago, Will Earhart of Pittsburgh. They pricked their ears particularly at the playing of the Peru, Neb. orchestra which was conducted by a girl, Ruby Brown of Rockport, Mo. They found her band worthy of third place in the class C contest.
Philharmonic in London