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...Hersey also brought out the fact that Bostonians were accused of pseudo-culture long before the day of Hampden and Clive; he quoted the memoirs of an 1850 dramatist who bewailed the ill fortune of Shakespeare, Sheridan, and the like, when any cheap production with glitter, blare, and tinsel packed the house...
...invasion of Russia, scoring it for such instrumental auxiliaries as a brass band, church bells, cannon shot and the like, was rousingly rendered by the New York Philharmonic. At the climax, a brass band of eleven players rose to their feet behind the regular Philharmonic men, added their jubilant blare to the strains of the onetime (Imperial) national anthem of Russia which composes the finale. Like musketry came the applause. Stravinsky seated himself at the piano, played for the first time in Manhattan his Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. "It is," he had explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite...
...obscure rendezvous in Paris the meeting will take replace. 'No blare of trumpets, no strains of martial music, no pomp and circumstance worthy of the Emperor of the Russians will mark the debut of Cyril into the political whirl of Europe. That is all for the future. The Prefect of Police has ordered out no extra details of gendarmes to handle the crowds. The hotels have created to tents on their roofs to accommodate the influx of Russian nobles. Society of gay French capital is in no frenzy of excitement "of the prospect of leaving so much royalty...
Further information concerning the monster parade in Boston which the University contingent will join has been secured. Fourteen organizations, with a total of 12,000 members, will parade. There will be students from Boston College, Boston University and M. I. T. The blare of ten brass bands will vie with the yells of the marchers for supremacy in noise producing powers. The famous Whittall Huzzars of Worcester will march in full regalin, and each of the other delegations will have a distinctive uniform...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...