Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countenance the easy tools of the theatre in place of the more difficult and exacting technique of illusionism. If "The Moon is a Gong" is of the same pattern as "Processional", with characters reduced to readily comprehensible types, conducting their impossible business to the strains of a the less jazz band, we may rest assured that the play chosen by the Dramatic Club is a slip shed evasion of the method which its author confesses himself incompetent to handle...
...number of gentlemen of the press stood in the steel corridor of a trans-atlantic liner and collogued together in low tones. They had come to interview George Gershwin, ringmaster of fascinating ryhthms, who, last week, was commissioned to write a jazz composition for the New York Symphony Society. Critic-composer Deems Taylor had also agreed, at the Society's behest, to compose an orchestral work for its program next season; the august Director, Dr. Walter Damrosch himself, had announced that he would conduct the Society's famed orchestra at the presentation of Gershwin's, of Taylor's, compositions. Inevitably...
...Most people, of course, meant the banal, monotonous ki-yiing of the American Indians?an absurd misconception. Indian music came from Asia. It is in no respect native. The music the rhythms of which are implicit in the movement of modern U. S. life has never been written. . . . Will jazz be its medium? . . . Perhaps...
...first song hit was I Was So Young, You Were So Beautiful. Others: Swanee, I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise, Do It Again, I Won't Say I Will, Somebody Loves Me, Fascinating Rhythm. Last winter, he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue. In a jazz theme, announced by full orchestra, the immortal Liszt, with a diamond in his dinner-shirt, collapses, babbling, on a night-club table; instruments fall silent behind piano figurations for a chorus-rehearsal of skeletons with a solo ghoul in a buck-and-wing dip, while the first cat that was ever killed by Care...
Tell Me More. George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies. Ever since he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue and collected great commendation from serious critics, his every movement is listened to with interest. In this latest, there are two new ones, Tell Me More and My Fair Lady, which will exercise the springs of many a phonograph. There is also a plot about a girl who pretended she was a shop clerk to see whether her hero's love were real. Emma Haig, Andrew Tombes and Lou Holtz are, next...