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...dark young man, attired in pajamas of kingfisher-blue silk, smoking, with mannered nonchalance, a brown cigaret, was reclining among the pillows of a luxurious seabed. He responded amiably to their questions. Native American music . . . what did they mean by that? Most people, of course, meant the banal, monotonous ki-yiing of the American Indians?an absurd misconception. Indian music came from Asia. It is in no respect native. The music the rhythms of which are implicit in the movement of modern U. S. life has never been written. . . . Will jazz be its medium? . . . Perhaps...
...rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
...given me more publicity than amusement. The first, in its obvious connection with the Business School number of the Lampoon, seemed to be apropros and somewhat funny. I can take a joke. But this last, lacking both humor and originality, being neither relevant nor in good taste, is so banal as to be scarcely credible. Really the CRIMSON sleuths should expose these scurrilous scribes. I feel sure that they are the same individuals who steal the books from Widener...
...Music. Banal, melodious cantilenas, shreds of the wild echoes Verdi set flying?melody that has been shut up from the air until, to modern taste, it has become stiff, flaky, like stale candy. In the eight years that intervened between Giovanni Gallurese and L'Amore del Tre Re, Montemezzi must have worked hard, critics decided...
...excellent. The impression left was much the same as when that subtle artist, Eva Gauthier, included in one of her programs of songs a group of jazz pieces (TIME, Nov. 12). The best of jazz has original and splendid rhythm and instrumentation, but the stalest and most banal of melody and harmony. The harmony adapts a few moderately recent quirks to the use of startling the popular ear. The themes used seem the most incredible bathos...