Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really well-developed swing piece and those jazz critics will pan it right off. Why, they don't even understand it!" he said indignantly. The Duke holds that a fine swing tune can be interpreted in exactly the same way as classical music is delved into. He said, though, that it was too much a commercial thing. "They's a lot of money being made out of it." Used too much in an elementary form, too, he said...
Thus, while some of her judgments remain arbitrary and personal, educators and historians can compare her new book with her old for a picture of changes that have come over U. S. manners during the 15 years in which Prohibition had its heyday and departed, in which the jazz age ran its course, in which women's skirts rose and fell and rose again like the curtain on a play, in which radio, automobiles, airplanes, and divorce altered the tempo of U. S. life. Examples of the new Etiquette's changes and additions...
...studied piano under Ferruccio Busoni, became dissatisfied even though his teacher said he had "God-graced hands." Gruenberg's early, romantic Hill of Dreams won a $1,000 prize given by Harry Harkness Flagler for the New York Symphony. He turned to syncopated dissonances in The Daniel Jazz and Jazz Suite. But the rewards of modern composers-$100 or so for an occasional orchestra or opera performance-are not great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden Carpenter, a Chicago businessman who made money in mill, railway & ship supplies, most...
...muscular maestro-who used to be an amateur boxer and was interviewed as such last week by Sports Writer Cy Peterman of the Philadelphia Bulletin-seated himself at the piano, gave an account of the Rhapsody in Blue of the late George Gershwin,* which for technical brilliance and jazz feeling topped anything Gershwin or Roy Bargy ever did with the work...
...Occidental African craftsmen were stinking convincingly last week as they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest was the civilized white crowd around a coal-black East African Negro cloth weaver who chants a weird native jazz in time with the squeaking of his loom pedals, the clanking of his bone shuttle...