Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, the American League of Professional Women held a music forum luncheon last week. Two guests of honor were given the same topic: "What shall we do about jazz?" They were Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist, and Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian contralto. Dr. Straton rose first, bit off his words, said loudly, severely...
...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
Drawled Mme. d'Alvarez pleasantly: "Jazz is my reason for living in New York City. I prefer to live in New York because here I can find the inspiration of good jazz music. New York is jazz incarnate. Its architecture, its business, its life-all sparkle to a syncopated measure. . . . An honest jazz tune is better than a sermon on prohibiting anything. . . . When I die I have only one request to make. I want music at my funeral, but no dirge or mournful laments. Play only one thing and let that number be George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody...
...well-it-takes-all-kinds-of-people-to-make-a-world feeling so common in the contemplation of musical comedy heroes, Mr. Puck sings most satisfactorily, maltreats a piano outrageously, even to the extent of landing on the keys in a nose dive while in the throes of a jazz number, and clowns through numerous comedy scenes which owe their hilarity largely to his naive portrayal of the nice young man who "lives at the Y.M.C.A. in Brooklyn." Moreover, he is credited with the direction of the dance numbers, which should in itself be enough honor...
...given tomorrow evening when the Glee Club holds its regular concert of the year at Methuen, where it will sing with the Freshman Instrumental Club. From 65 to 75 men will take part in this performance after which there will be dancing to music supplied by the Freshman jazz band...