Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German, with presumably Rethberg or Jeritza, both of whom have sung the role in Europe, singing Helen; Fra Gherardo, Ildebrando Pizzetti's new opera which was sung for the first time a month ago in Milan; and Jonny Spielt Auf, by Ernst Krenek, which is called a "jazz" opera, by Europeans who use the word to describe anything peculiarly modern or bizarre, rather than to indicate with idiomatic precision a certain distribution of rhythm in music...
Paradoxically, she does a maudlin song to the tune of jazz, with lines from Horace chanted as chorus...
...cares about Mrs. Moscowitz of the Abie's Irish Rose team, or Judge Sabath & Wife, or the little banker's boy-in New York who runs a jazz orchestra...
...symphonies and jazz-dances will not be played to an eager audience in the effort to discover which are best. They will be examined by five exceedingly able judges who, if none of the offerings are good enough to get the prize, will award the money to the "development of creative musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini...
...sportive and popular Teuton savant, Count Hermann Keyserling,* has said: "The two contributions of America to world culture are Professor Dewey and Negro jazz...