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.
Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Gottlieb Goldberg for which Bach helped copy out performance parts around 1745–46. "Lobt ihn mit Herz und Munde", BWV 220 is a St. John's Day cantata by an unknown composer. Its oldest manuscript went lost but existed before 1761. "Meine Seele rühmt und preist", BWV 189 is a cantata for Visitation (2 July), using a German paraphrase of the Magnificat as text. It is dated to before 1761, based on what remains from its 18th-century sources. Likely it was however composed by Melchior Hoffmann, in 1715 at the latest. Around 1733 Bach produced the D Major version of