Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kelcher '27, who played together all last year and gave several performances. A total of 80 men took part in this concert, probably one of the most successful ever undertaken by the Instrumental Clubs. At the close of the program the clubs gave a dance, supplying their own jazz orchestra under the direction of J. H. Wright '25. The clubs traveled to Worcester in Gray Line busses provided especially for the purpose, where they were the guests of the Worcester Clubs for dinner...
...special attraction of the performance will be the Specialty Jazz Orchestra, which "won an almost international reputation by its European trip last summer. When in Spain, the orchestra was asked to play before King Alphonso and Queen Victoria at Santander, the summer palace of the Spanish court, where it was given a reception by the Queen. Besides playing at numerous benefit balls, the orchestra filled many private engagements, which included a concert at the American embassy in San Sebastian, Spain...
...myself, one-step, two-step, and I see the people in these big hotels, like where I stay, the Plaza, is it? When you do it as they do, you do not go up, you go down, do you not feel that yourself? And the music this jazz! It is too noisy, too harsh. It might do for the grotesque, for clowns and acrobats. It has a rhythm, but it is not for dancing, do you see?" Madame talks as expressively with her arms and hands as with words: at this point she pressed both her hands to her face...
...Kahn's interest is said to have been aroused by his son Roger's success as a conductor of jazz...
There seems no immediate probability that the sacrosanct wall of the Metropolitan Opera House will echo to the strident syncopations of U. S. jazz. This in spite of the fact that Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has invited Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, famed composers of jazz, to submit a jazz opera for production in the very throne room of music. Irving-Berlin would "give his right arm to do it," but feels technically unfit. Jerome Kern, who refused to try an opera six years ago, favors the scheme, whether he or another carries...