Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received Bishop Charles Henry Brent of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, who had just returned from Europe. The Bishop painted an optimistic picture of lessening of intra-European hatreds...
Naturally, there have clustered together little groups of serious European thinkers to make the same discovery that Americans have made, that Jazz is a great art form. So, since that sort of thing makes him sick, Critic Ernest Newman last week had at it bitterly in his London Sunday Times, saying...
...would, however, require a very powerful organization to combat the almost universal desire of European musicians to come to America...
Back from Europe came Olga Samaroff, able pianist turned kindly critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote last week for her paper a very earnest article. Said she: "I doubt if anything could be more depressing to a musician of European education than to make a journey of investigation into musical conditions overseas today...
...operas, filled as they are with memories of past glories, force upon the observer the unpleasant truth that art is hopelessly dependent upon economic prosperity. . . . "We must remember that an overwhelmingly large percentage of the composers, performers and teachers who make our musical life what it is today are Europeans; that most of the important music produced is European, and that the fundamentals of the whole art as we know and practice it are European...