From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 9, Round 5 - Audio - The Big Band Era   
   >   
   > 3. A clarinetist, this bandleader, the son of Russian Jewish   
   >    immigrants, broke through largely due to late-night radio   
   >    shows, and eventually earned the nickname "The King of Swing".   
   >    Name the bandleader, playing clarinet here.   
      
   Bernstein   
      
   > 4. This exceptional clarinetist, like , was the son   
   >    of Jewish immigrants.  He anglicized his name to make it   
   >    big.  In the mid-'30s, his band found success with hits like   
   >    "Stardust", "Moonglow", "Frenesi", and the following cover of   
   >    a Cole Porter melody that became his signature tune.  Name the   
   >    bandleader playing clarinet here.   
      
   Gershwun   
      
   > 5. This pianist's arrangements emphasized the swinging rhythm   
   >    section with percussive piano accents and dueling tenor   
   >    saxophones.  This song, "One O'Clock Jump", was the band's   
   >    theme song.  He was a member of jazz royalty, the first   
   >    African-American male to win a Grammy.  Name him.   
      
   Count Basie   
      
   > 6. His big band was the best-selling band from 1939 through 1942.   
   >    Hits included "String of Pearls", "Tuxedo Junction", "Kalamazoo",   
   >    "In the Mood", and this 1941 song, the first gold record   
   >    ever made.  Name this bandleader who perished in the war.   
      
   Glenn Miller   
      
   > 7. Many bandleaders teamed up with rising solo singers.  Les   
   >    Brown and his Band of Renown launched a young singer with an   
   >    alliterative name to stardom with this 1945 hit.  She later   
   >    had a movie career and a number of TV shows.  Name the singer.   
      
   Ella Fitzgerland   
      
   > 9. This bandleader, a talented trumpet player with a distinctive   
   >    tone, hit it big when he added strings and vocalists for a   
   >    sweeter sound.   called it 'schmaltzy'.  It worked,   
   >    though.  In 1945, he and his wife, actress Betty Grable, were the   
   >    highest-earning couple in the US.  Here he is playing trumpet   
   >    with singer Kitty Kallen.  *Either* name him or give the title   
   >    of this #1 song from late 1945.   
      
   Duke Ellington   
      
   > * Game 9, Round 6 - Arts - Alas, Too Young   
   >   
   > 5. He integrated the native rhythms and melodies of American   
   >    popular music into a classical framework.  His "Porgy and   
   >    Bess" was the first American opera to be performed at La Scala   
   >    in Milan.  He died of a brain tumor in 1937 at the age of 38.   
   >    His last words were "Fred Astaire."   
      
   Aaron Copland   
      
   > 6. When this pianist and composer died in 1849 at the age of 39,   
   >    his funeral ceremonies resembled those of a head of state.   
   >    The Archbishop of Paris gave a special dispensation to allow   
   >    female singers to perform the Requiem during the service.   
   >    While most of him is buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery, his   
   >    heart was removed from his body and rests in Poland.   
      
   Fredéric Chopin   
      
   > 7. In 1924, at the age of 40, before his death from tuberculosis in   
   >    a sanatorium near Vienna, this author ordered his friend Max   
   >    Brod to destroy all of his unpublished writings.  Happily for   
   >    posterity, Brod disobeyed the author's wishes.  Who was the   
   >    author?   
      
   Franz Kafka   
      
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