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...down on those reports was itself like a battlefield. Everything about it was big, broad, strong. The weather had been on it, and personal suffering behind it. The huge mouth looked like command, and above it, the nose was pugnacious. The eyes were aggressive. They and their screen of brow above the weariness below were as impressive and busy-looking as a couple of task forces. The face, as it read the reports, was thoughtful...
...always wanted to play the piano but could never get near enough to one to learn how, decided that, come what may, Dorothy must have lessons. Dorothy got them at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical music for four years. The Conservatory's high-brow teachers tried, but they never could break Dorothy of her habit of making horrible faces while she played. Their prim five-finger exercises never could curb her habit of cutting loose in shoulder-shaking, canebrake improvisations (Dorothy finally wore out one piano). The Conservatory was never able to keep her percussive...
Last week Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus (The Bat), considered by many to be the greatest of all operettas, bubbled out of the high-brow auditoriums and hit Broadway. Broadway's Bat had undergone some important changes since Johann Strauss composed it. The changes were the work of famed Viennese Director Max Reinhardt, who used the same version he produced in Berlin 13 years ago and was afraid to take to Vienna for fear of scandalizing the tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss...
These were only a starter. After them will come some 500 other artists-divas and dowagers, prodigies and spaghetti tenors, world-famed violinists and pianists, European celebrities and art-conscious radio crooners-all intent on their big moment before the nation's most exacting (and jaded) high-brow musical audience. The Manhattan recital season was off again last week to its characteristically chaotic start. At the box office, Manhattan's ticket salesmen were jubilant. As in 1917, they reported a recital boom...
...answer both at once. You can't convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...