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...California. It stimulates the vogue for putting all manner of mechanical sounds into music. Alone, and on first hearing, however, it failed to inspire any widespread confidence. People were becoming increasingly wary of modern composers. Repeated hearings of the Pacific were necessary to convince that it was more than freakish stuff. But for five years now it has endured, and since, substantiating it as ringing, vital music, there have been King David, Antigone, Judith, now Rugby...
...magnificently performed and he turns for recognition and support to a proverbially fickle electorate. Amid the electoral complexities inseparable from French politics the supporters of the Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré are merely heavy favorites in a type of a race which is too often run with freakish results...
...front of the million-dollar state capitol at Frankfort, Kentucky changed governors midstream. Out went Governor William J. Fields, Democrat. In came Governor Flem D. Sampson, Republican. So freakish had been Kentucky's political currents that Republican Governor Sampson entered office with a Democratic Lieutenant Governor (James Breathitt Jr.) and a departmental staff which is Democratic to a man. Soon a Democratic legislature will convene. Surrounded by Democratic Philistines, Governor Sampson was not, however, shorn by a Democratic Delilah. Hampered in obtaining legislation, he can still veto legislation. Governor Sampson was elected because Governor Fields wanted to smash...
Vague clamorings are being heard of an art that insists it is the music of the age. It appears a freakish thing, unusual in sound as well as in mechanics. Once in a great while, a man will invent an instrument for the sake of expressing an idea better than it could be expressed in any other medium. Such an invention was the foot pedal that made Chopin's genius possible...
...GREAT AMERICAN ASS-Anonymous-Brentano's ($3.50) Of all autobiographies, anonymous ones arouse the highest expecta tions. These, one feels, can afford to let themselves go. On this score none will be disappointed with "Roy Bradley's" freakish self-history. He is a man on the borderline of genius and insanity, not far (though far enough) removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised...