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...COMMON CHORD, STORIES AND TALES OF IRELAND (278 pp.) - Frank O'Connor-Knopf...
Without a glance at the audience, the stocky little pianist padded straight to the concert grand in the center of the stage. He sat down, arranged his tails, struck a softly impatient chord. When the chatter and applause diminished to a cathedral quiet, he began to play. People in the front rows heard him snort and grunt over sforzandos, in rollicking passages saw his blue eyes twinkle like Santa Claus's. When his program was over, he nodded his big, square head appreciatively, and trundled off stage...
What Semmler had said was not highly important, since most of it was untrue or half true. What was more important was the responsive chord his tune had struck with Germans, eager to vent the blame for their troubles on the occupation...
...boys in Doc Evans' jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago...
...whole history of oppression and religious faith as is possible for us." Sometimes the harmony gets too close, and de Paur admits it. "I may go overboard a bit. Lord knows I deplore that homogenized effect as much as anybody-but I just can't resist a pretty chord...