Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubbish was occupied by a futuristic oil painting, The Adventurer by Satirist George Grosz, done in 1917 and sold in 1928 to the Dresden Stadt-Museum. Gaping Nazis gazed at the figure of a cowboy poised with savage alertness and virility amid cubistic vortices of skyscrapers, smokestacks, scaffolding, jazz dancers, bright lights and detached female contours, the Stars & Stripes appearing over his right shoulder. Not on exhibition were any of Grosz's brambly line drawings of Nazi Jew baitings and miscellaneous bestialities which won him, besides an international reputation, the special hatred of Herr Hitler. Artist Grosz now lives...
...teacher for 50?. George had two years of such instruction, never a good teacher until he met Charles Hambitzer. Hambitzer was a composer, ambitious to teach the boy all about Chopin, Liszt and DeBussy. Had he succeeded in sending young Gershwin abroad to study, the history of U. S. jazz might have been different...
...Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time and inclination for serious work. In 1923 he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman's jazz-concert played in highbrow Aeolian Hall. The enthusiastic reception it got is now historic. Thereafter Gershwin wrote for a double audience. Some 18,000 people packed Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium when he played his works there. Walter Damrosch conducted Gershwin's Jazz Concerto in sanctified Carnegie Hall...
...Philadelphia's Convention Hall, Ferde Grof e led the Philadelphia Orchestra through some of his own symphonic jazz, featured such radio soloists as Jane Pickens, Lucy Monroe, Lucille Manners, the Four Southernaires. Young Donald Dickson of the Metropolitan sang a song from The Vagabond King. Of the $7,000 raised by this concert, part went to Mayor Wilson's Milk Fund, part to the Orchestra's summer concerts at bosky Robin Hood Dell. Two days later, with dark Spanish Jose Iturbi on the podium, the Dell concerts officially began...
...cost of the records. If the venture prospers, record dividends will be declared. Headed by Artist Stephen W. Smith and advised by a board of leading spirits from the United Hot Clubs of America, the Society seemed assured of a welcome from the nation's half-million serious jazz fanciers. "We will choose," haughtily announces the Society's first bulletin, "to reprint discs that are distinguished both by greatness of performance and by rarity, leaving the corn to the hillbillies and the more accessible hot records to the assiduousness of individual collectors...