Word: bayleaf
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow of George Gershwin. Walter Damrosch besought him to write a jazz concerto for the New York Symphony Society; Composer Gershwin said he would...
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