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GLENN MILLER BUST IN BEDFORD ENGLAND
A meeting with Glenn Miller in England in 1944.
Martin Schwartz, of Muncie, Ind., was a Lieutenant j.g. stationed with the U. S. Navy in Plymouth, England. The Glenn Miller Army Air Force band was scheduled to give a series of concerts for servicemen in Plymouth as well as residents of this seaside community. They would arrive on board two C-47 transport planes. Lt. Schwartz had the assignment of meeting their leader at the airfield and escorting him for the day. The orchestra was scheduled to visit another military installation the following day and then return to London. Dense fog, however, interrupted their schedule, and the orchestra was forced to remain in Plymouth an additional day.
Lt. Schwartz and Major Miller had ample opportunity to chat as they waited for the fog to clear. The lieutenant confessed to the major when they first met that he had an opportunity to hire the Glenn Miller orchestra when he was in the market for a band to play for a dance at his house at Harvard. "I must tell you, Major, that I went to hear your band ahead of time and then told Mr. Schreibman [ballroom operator and band booker] that they weren't good enough." As Martin Schwartz tells it today, the Major took it in good spirits, bursting into a hearty laugh. The ice was broken and the two got along famously for the remainder of the visit.
"We didn't talk about jazz, " he said, "only the
classics. He was very knowledgeable on that subject."
From time to time
Schwartz's wife, who had attended Juilliard School of Music, sent her
husband compositions she had written. He showed the latest one to Major
Miller. Glenn looked at it carefully, began to hum a portion of it and
then said dismissively, "Oh, she's just copying Brahms." Source: David Miller, Big Band website
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