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Confucius' discovery that music is an infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...
...accident. The drug's power to slow the sense of time gives an improviser the illusion that he has all the time in the world in which to conceive his next phrases. And the drug also seems to heighten the hearing-so that, for instance, strange chord formations seem easier to analyze under marijuana. Jazz-playing vipers may be outnumbered by "lushes" (alcoholics)-who almost never smoke reefers. Today, among all dance musicians (including those of the "sweet" bands), the percentage of marijuana smokers probably does not exceed 20%. But among hot jazz players there are few (except...
...begin. From the White House came a 22-word program note: "The conference of the combined staffs in Washington has ended in complete agreement on future operations in all theaters of the war." Millions of players stood with instruments raised, ready on signal to crash out the first chord of the Roosevelt-Churchill Invasion Symphony...
...Home Base. The Prime Minister had soared over the heads of lesser politicians, had struck a responsive chord in the mass heart of Britain. Most Britons reacted sentimentally; few stopped to analyze the things that Churchill did not say. But, in the British press, the few dissents were to the point. Said the Manchester Guardian: "The four-year plan [for domestic economy after the war] does not amount to more than what the Government is already pledged to in the way of reconstruction." Growled the London News Chronicle: "There was not one reference to the Atlantic Charter, nothing about...
...this country, and last night one might have thought that the Shostakovitch 6th had been dedicated to him. The orchestra was controlled perfectly, and performed like a well organized, well rehearsed machine. The spirit of the music was caught at the first bar, and held to the final chord. A prayer is being offered from this quarter that a recording by Dr. Koussevitsky and his orchestra be made soon to take its rightful place next to the one made some time ago by Leopold Stokowski...