The Glenn Miller Orchestra. Members: Ed Zandy, Fern Caron, John Worster, Johnny Potoker, Lenny Hambro, Lou Chev, Ray Desio, Ray McKinley. Variations: Viewing All | The New Glenn Miller Orchestra. Glenn Miller Sound, La Nueva Orquesta De Glen Miller, La Nueva Orquesta De Glenn Miller, Le Nouvel Orchestre De Glenn Miller, New Glenn Miller Orch Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for A Memorial For Glenn Miller by The Original Members Of Glenn Miller's Orchestra. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs. Glenn Miller orchestra to return. STAFF REPORT news@dewittobserver.com. Mar 28, 2023. A musical act scheduled at the Central DeWitt Performing Arts Center is bound to get people to their feet. The Glenn Miller Orchestra swings into DeWitt on April 15, 2023, at 7 p.m. Gray was passed over for the job of leading the postwar "ghost" Glenn Miller Orchestra, reportedly because the Miller Estate felt he did not have the pop-star qualities they wanted in a new leader. In 1945, Gray was an arranger for the Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller Orchestra when Henry Mancini was the pianist. In 1947, Gray served as Mancini's best Miller, of course, was already gone, having vanished overseas in December of 1944 while serving in the military and leading a hugely successful band. He never lived to see the end of the era that he helped shape. Sources: Simon, George T. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974. Schuller, Gunther. From about 1938 to his untimely death in 1942, Glenn Miller and his orchestra played to packed houses, his records dominated the charts, and he was the first musician to receive a Gold Record. At the time of his death he was arguably the best known popular musician in the world, and while times and tastes have changed, but Miller is still known About the Event. A legend lives on as the Glenn Miller Orchestra presents seven decades of hits. The 18-member ensemble just celebrated its 65th anniversary in 2021 and continues to play many of the original Miller arrangements alongside more modern selections performed in the distinctive Miller style and sound, where the clarinet holds the melodic line—doubled or coupled with the tenor sax Directed by Ray McVay. Ever since Helen Miller asked Tex Beneke to front a Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1946, there has hardly been a time when we haven't had an official Glenn Miller band, following in the steps of the original Orchestra. For me the 1938-42 civilian band was the band that has been part of my life since I was a young teenager. The “road rats” of the Glenn Miller Orchestra have learned to adapt to their hectic life on wheels. At a time when big band sounds of the 1930s and 1940s are making a comeback on radio stations, the Glenn Miller “ghost” band never has been more popular. Orchestra members seem proud of their roles as curators of a musical treasure. WsVHij4.

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