Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German Carl Hoeckner, 51, the Art Institute's teacher of layout and interior decoration, who showed a series of huge, macabre canvases. Of them Hoeckner says: "They might be called my emotional records-first of the World War, then the Steel Age, the Jazz Age, the Depression and the general confusion throughout the world...
...when 2,000 people gathered in Chicago for three conventions, the National Association of Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers, the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers Association, even the piano men began feeling allegro giocoso. President Edwin R. Weeks of the Music Merchants blithely buried the Jazz Age, declaring that "dreamy, tuneful melodies" are now the thing. President Robert A. Schmitt of the Sheet Music Dealers said: "People are singing again in family music groups. They have kicked out the 'Hotcha man.' They are playing the piano instead of the phonograph...
...attention in a great throng of his colleagues in Manhattan's Hotel Astor. In session was the 14th general convention of the American Guild of Organists which he helped found in 1896. To its 1,000 delegates he declared: "Modern music is going crazy. There is too much jazz, and jazz means dissonance. The standard of organ playing has greatly improved. The higher type music of such modern American composers as Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and George W. Chadwick has superseded the old church music of comparatively insipid nature. But now we organists must deal with the influx...
...Great Train Robbery (1903), The Birth of a Nation (1914), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Jazz Singer (1927), the newsreel of the sinking Vestris (1928) are classics which help explain how & why the cinema became what it now is. Because the profitable demand for them is soon exhausted, most films, classic or otherwise, are retired after about two years, frequently forgotten, sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced...
...poor but that is due to the fact that the sponsors insist on a lot of so-called comedy, windy advertising and entirely too much vocalizing. When the orchestra is allowed its all too few numbers on the program I insist that the so-called ''King of Jazz" is still living up to his rich tradition. Of course, Whiteman cannot be called the "King'' of hot jazz but there is no successful dance band in America, except for the "swing" types, which is not patterned on the Whiteman model and when Paul "gets hot" it cannot...