Freddy Martin others), which featured the band's pianists Jack Fina, Murray Arnold, and Barclay Allen. In 1946 he recorded "Dingbat the Singing Cat" adapted from Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf", and later recorded "A Lover's Concerto", adapted from baroque composer Christian Petzold's "Minuet in G major", two decades before pop group The Toys released it. At this time, Martin enlarged the orchestra to a strength of six violins, four brasses, and a like number of saxes. His band's first hits included "Intermezzo" and "the Hut-Sut Song". Martin was nicknamed "Mr. Silvertone" by saxophonist Johnny Hodges. Chu Berry named Martin his favorite saxophonist.
Orchestral Suite in G minor, BWV 1070 movements. The description below is based on or copied from words by Joseph Stevenson, a music critic. Unlike those from the 4 orchestral suites known to have been written by Johann Sebastian Bach, the opening movement is a solemn piece in the form of a prelude and fugue, without a refrain of the slow introduction. The main melody of the movement has a dashing, rapid run as an upbeat figure. The movement in the submediant major (subdominant parallel) begins with a recitative-like figure, then adopts a more measured, flowing style built on the same figurations. The main minuet in G