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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943
1943-04-14: Page 07
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alert, clean-lined face and is as poised and gracious as any artist I have ever watched. For the entertainment of dilettantes like myself he has devised a program which we can enjoy and appreciate. He takes popular songs and plays them in a classic manner, and the classics he modernizes or swings. It is a marvelous talent, and he does it delightfully. I almost fell out of of my chair when, right off the bat, he said that first he would play the Iowa corn song then depict how he thought de Bussy would have arranged it. And believe it or not, there it came, the Iowa Corn Song dressed up in the silk and satin of cultured music-from overalls to full dress in a twinkling of the eye. Of course, in deference to his professional pride he must play some classical stuff-Rachmoninoff's "Prelude C Sharp Minor" and one of his own compositions "Trout Streams." During the latter I could clearly see the bubbling, laughing streams bouncing down Long's Peak and the speckled trout splashing over rocks, down the cataract, and into the quiet pools below. Toward the finish of his program he asked the patrons to suggest any four songs or musical compositions at random. The four suggested were Greek Concerto, Girl with the Flaxen Hair, As Time Goes By, Taboo. He then
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alert, clean-lined face and is as poised and gracious as any artist I have ever watched. For the entertainment of dilettantes like myself he has devised a program which we can enjoy and appreciate. He takes popular songs and plays them in a classic manner, and the classics he modernizes or swings. It is a marvelous talent, and he does it delightfully. I almost fell out of of my chair when, right off the bat, he said that first he would play the Iowa corn song then depict how he thought de Bussy would have arranged it. And believe it or not, there it came, the Iowa Corn Song dressed up in the silk and satin of cultured music-from overalls to full dress in a twinkling of the eye. Of course, in deference to his professional pride he must play some classical stuff-Rachmoninoff's "Prelude C Sharp Minor" and one of his own compositions "Trout Streams." During the latter I could clearly see the bubbling, laughing streams bouncing down Long's Peak and the speckled trout splashing over rocks, down the cataract, and into the quiet pools below. Toward the finish of his program he asked the patrons to suggest any four songs or musical compositions at random. The four suggested were Greek Concerto, Girl with the Flaxen Hair, As Time Goes By, Taboo. He then
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