Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the music that is played in concert halls comes from the broad musical meadows of Central Europe. But most of the tunes that set people dancing or whistling come from their own musical back yards. For want of a home-grown product even half as good, non-Germanic countries have had to import a large part of their concert music. But during the past 75 years composers in other countries have struggled to raise their own distinct national types of concert music, to produce symphonies, quartets, operas that are 100% Russian, Hungarian or American (jazz). Some have been...
...classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world fame. By the time he was 60 even the Central Europeans admitted he was good, placed a bust of him in the famous Gewandhaus hall of fame in Leipzig. Even the concert-shy man-in-the-street knew and whistled melodies from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite...
...been dispatched to England: 1) to persuade those interested in getting the Jews out of Germany to pay a "ransom" in the form of increased purchases of German goods; 2) to stave off Britain's threat to "fight Germany at her own game" for the trade in Central Europe and South America; 3) to get Britain to buy more from Germany than she has been doing...
...halls in the general manner of Degas and Manet. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1895. Among 97 canvases hung at the Whitney show were several glamor paintings of this period done after Glackens returned to Manhattan: Mouquin's Restaurant, Hammerstein's Roof Garden, sledding in Central Park...
Ride a Crooked Mile (Paramount). The central figure of this picture is a borsch-supping, caviar-munching, Otchi-Tchornyia-singing Cossack (Akim Tamiroff). Its locale is Kansas. For this apparent contradiction there is a simple explanation. The Cossack is a cattle rustler. and cattle rustling, by old cinema tradition, is an un-American occupation pursued only by refugees from nations to which Hollywood does not export its wares...