Word: browed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SONNETS AND VERSE?Hilaire Belloc ?McBride ($2.75). The jacket blurb announces that the author has here collected, with a few exceptions, "all his poems which he wishes to preserve." Some of them justify the lifted eye-brow which would query "Why?" Regrettable pages of triviality are interspersed with redeeming gleams of lyric beauty...
This depends upon how you define religion. If Religion means merely high-brow sermons, beautiful church music, well fed preachers dilating upon conventional subjects and attempting to teach economics to congregations, or attendance at church, we need no more. We have enough. If religion means the life of God in the soul of man (this is the real definition), then this is the crying need of America today. But the average preacher is helpless to satisfy...
...will refresh the brow-beaten American to hear that no less then London music critic has openly and guilelessly praised an American institution. And it is a nice compliment to the University, or more properly to Dr. Davison, that the Harvard Glee Club is the object of this commendation...
...spring. As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes. However, Whiteman made a speech which rang straight from his heart. He mourned and denounced the contempt with which jazz is held by the practitioners and fanciers of high-brow music, and pronounced jazz to be serious art, "the only true American musical art." Many exponents of jazz put on a varnish of this same opinion, but Whiteman expressed it with a peculiar fervency. He has been schooled as-an orthodox musician and presumably desires the reverence in which orthodox musicians...
...some very good attempts at classical jazz. George Gershwin, who wrote the popular jazz piece 'Do It Again' has composed 'Rhapsody in Blue'--probably the best thing of the kind that we have. It is pure jazz, but it shows Mr. Gershwin's knowledge of the principles of 'high-brow' musical composition. We may expect a good deal from him in the future...