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Show - - r j Modern Music Supplants j Big Business As Career Vr' v V ! - ; 1 Mi DOIT BI&ELavr I Awki A fern wHm Bcl-ty ts-ti has Ifi cf fii for tiarwi, Cct-tj Co-d ksi cyfs oj VoVs dwp Hue , Sen of Steel Magnate Becomes Be-comes Famous Orchestra Orches-tra Leader New York City. ''Music is as i:n'?h a B'jr Business !s steel." This is the opinion of Don Bijre-low, Bijre-low, blue stocking orchestra leader of IM.inhattan. "Music is as practical as any so-ra'.le-l iiisr business," Bigelow de-cicres. de-cicres. ''My father has an office at his stee! p!ji,t ready i'or rne, but 1 like music holier and I'm making- more money than any steel ; 'art could pay a man who had Leen on the job only one year. "A few years a.w, musicians wei'e a kind of family curse. To have one around the home war. about like having a queer old maid r.r"H. One didn't talk about it. 4'3ut new a1! tli'.t is ehne "i !.e musician 's rcsocciab'e an.1 rsieded for lie iv.nst Vnow h'; business onions, especially if he is an orchestra leader. He has to make contracts involving millions and muse ertainly know what it is all abo. t b'iore he assumes a modern orchestra pay roll. "Yet commerce has not. taken the artistry out of music. The modern dance band player must know his instrument perfectly. He must read well and he a thorough musician. "However, the pcncral run of music has improved becsr.se high-salaried high-salaried men want good stuff to play. Each piece must have same outstanding feature. It must not be just another number. Just now college songs are in vo.";ue and believe be-lieve me, they must be p,";od. 'Betty Co-ed' is illnh-ativo of the new type of collaT-te fox trot that rvoes for any ce''ec;e. It lias col-'egia'.e col-'egia'.e 'it' and vhv.n n wi; mnkes tbo ser1 i'cTi th'3 o'" h ' it rnut have alio ic-i :aLoal m-r;t." |
