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Will Marion Cook, the Negro Schubert, is fiery, erratic, race-proud. Hearing young Taylor, ambitious, hang on a high note, he kicked him out of Manhattan's famed Clef Club (negro musical organization), shouting: "No can can be a niggah if he sings my music wrong...
...figure of the new generation." So. last week, did H. T. Parker of the Boston Transcript appraise Boston's guest conductor. Thus are adjectives made to grow, for five years ago Honegger had been just a precocious fellow who at seven had composed two operas in the treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties one of the Group of Six in Paris, blustering fellows, so many thought, organized to acquaint the public with their music. Now Honegger remains supreme of the Six. His wife. Pianist Andree Vaurabourg-Honegger, plays his compositions...
...Dame a la Clef" is far less faulty than previous work by its author, who succeeds very well in working up a trifling incident. Perhaps, however, the author was not aware that his friend M. Lebon was telling him, in a slightly altered form, a familiar story in which a jealous husband walls up the stranger in the closet, instead of locking him in and then setting fire to the house...
...Glee Club sang before the Clef Club last night at the Hotel Vendome. During the evening a dinner was served to the members of the Glee Club...