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...girls, single or double file. All on foot?and stepping. Roustabouts from the docks, cane cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments???bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves of all descriptions, some attached to frying pans. Swinging hilarity and frenzy, all having a glorious time, with rum and without. All to the rhythm you aptly classify as 'hot.' These boys...
...Paris, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, new opera by Maurice Ravel, had its first performance at the Opera Comique. Critics were doubtful. There were strange harmonies, strange instruments???a rattle, a xylophone, a whip, a nutmeg-grater, a slide flute, a lutheal.? For the first time the Opera Comique orchestra played a fox-trot?for the dance of the Teapot and the Chinese Teacup...
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