Blue rhythm fantasy : big band jazz arranging in the swing era / by Wriggle, John

Table of Contents: “…Business and politics : the landscape -- Ace race arranger : the Broadway music clinic -- Harlem on Broadway : nightclub and theater revues -- Theory and practice : the fundamentals -- Episode and interlude : Broadway modernism -- Futuristic ragtime : style and identity -- Heavy stuff : classics and concertos -- Give me some skin : novelty songs and ballads -- Jungle madness : jazz dance and exotic numbers.…”
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The Collected Poems of John Ciardi / by Ciardi, John, 1916-1986

Table of Contents: “…From Homeward to America (1940): Letter to mother -- The foolish wing -- Winter music -- To westward -- Night freight, Michigan -- Letter for those who grew up together -- Letter homeward -- To a young American the day after the fall of Barcelona -- Biography -- To one "investigated" by the last senate committee, or the next -- Reply to S.K. -- Oedipus Tyrannus -- Cathedral -- Boy or girl -- Elaine -- Spring song (I) -- Spring song (II). from New poets (1941): George Washington Bridge -- Time is the late train into Albany -- Boy or girl -- Spring in statue square -- Elegy: for you, Father -- Elegy for the face at your elbow. from Other skies (1947): Ode for school convocation -- On sending home my civilian clothes -- Camptown -- Night piece for my twenty-seventh birthday -- Poem for a soldier's girl -- Take-off over Kansas -- Goodmorning with light -- Reverie during briefing -- Death of a bomber -- Port of aerial embarkation -- Sea burial -- Saipan -- Ritual for singing bat -- Letter from an island -- Elegy just in case (1984 version) -- Expendability -- Elegy [for Kurt Porjescz, missing in a action, 1 April 1945] -- Poem for my twenty-ninth birthday -- Wafflebutt -- Improvisation for a southern night -- V-J Day (1984 version) -- Hometown after a war -- Serenade in a drugstore -- Chelsea Naval Hospital -- On a photo of Sgt. …”
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