Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tourists want to amuse themselves let them go to Paris, Vienna, Berlin or London, not to mention the other trans-Atlantic cities. We have no time for old-fashioned jazz or monotonous dancing girls. We do not want Italy to be like any sort of Paris...
Jonny was the hero, a blackface, jazz-band comedian. He wanted the violin which belonged to Danielle, a famed virtuoso, wanted it more than any of the women who wanted him, and he stole it. Anita, meanwhile, a fattish prima donna, went from Max, the queasy composer who took his inspiration glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized...
Like a Broadway musical show, jazz rhythms set listeners' feet a-tapping. But appearances to the contrary, Jonny Spielt Auf* is no ordinary musical show, no Ziegfeld nor Dillingham production. Rather it is the notorious jazz opera of Ernst Krenek, 28-year-old Austrian, and it was presented last week by the august Metropolitan Opera Company with such important singers as Basso Michael Bohnen for Jonny, Tenor Walter Kirchoff for Max, Baritone Friedrich Schorr for Daniello, Sopranos Florence Easton for Anita, Editha Fleischer for Yvonne her maid, and Artur Bodanzky conducting...
Though meagre and defective, "Conductor Abie's" victory may serve as an opening wedge. Even more significant as a sign of growing British jazz consciousness was the installation, last week, of "phonograph kiosks" in the waiting rooms of several London and provincial railway stations...
Today England's "popular dance tunes" are 75 per cent U. S. jazz...