Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services" were held in an undertaker's small chapel. No priest officiated, so one Louis Altiere, lieutenant of O'Bannion, functioned as master of ceremonies. To a stringed orchestra of jazz musicians he whispered the command: "Now play!" Hymn after hymn was played. There was no other service. Mr. O'Bannion is credited by the police with having directed 25 of Chicago's most distinguished murders- by his friends with innumerable secret charities, kindnesses. Said an old woman...
...hallowed boards of the Metropolitan Opera Company may soon be graced, or disgraced, by a jazz opera--bizarre monster which could only be conceived in this land of Puritan hymnals and Hottentot orgiastic syncopation. The jazz-some scores of American popular ballads of "blues" and "mammies" are to be metamorphosed from their present fragmentary staff into an epic-like opera of the formerly humble working girl. Where princeases and courtesans footed nimbly across the stage and devastated admirers with their blasting rant, the tender shop or factory girl, the Cinderella princess of the automobile and ready-made clothes, will share...
...trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts and digestions of a whole generation of young Americans whose lives will be upset by the operatic tantrums of the "jazz baby...
...points a laudatory finger at some manifestation of national life and says. "That is typically American," is bold of the point of foolhardiness. Mr. Otto H. Kahn has pointed his finger at jazz, and said that it is America's one creative effort, something typically American. A first-rate Broadway revue, with its swiftly moving pace, is more an approximation to American art than in imitation grand opera, thinks Mr. Kahn...
...this be so, then it was the French tariff commission, not the French Academy of Music, which procured the deportation from Paris a year ago of five American jazz players. The musicians evidently under-sold their French competitors by importing music, into the country without paying a tariff duty on it, and were properly reprimanded for doing so. If jazz is really the national spirit expressed in music, then those plaintive ditties about "going home my mammy in (insert name of)" should be changed to have home time with capitol dome, and mammy can be the White House cook. This...