Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stream of letters covering topics ranging from American jazz to criticism of Russian and U. S. occupation policy has been reaching Harvard students. The correspondence has been growing steadily since January...
Brahms vs. Jazz...
...Auden's characters in the Third Avenue bar. Nearly 30 minutes later, it got to a huge, orgiastic orchestral climax, then resolved into a thoughtful epilogue. Overall, listeners heard more melody and less dissonance than they had come prepared to hear. Standout movement: a rhythmically terrific apotheosis of jazz, with Lennie himself at the piano, backed by bass fiddler and percussion...
...Riviera had been rocked by U.S. jazz when Louis Armstrong and his cats took over at Nice's Jazz Festival a year ago (TIME, March 8, 1948). Last week, in Cannes' red plush little Casino theater, the gold plush Riviera set got to hear what longer-haired U.S. musicians were...
Chairmen for the weekend events are: Dance committee, Phoebe Crampton; jazz concert, Betty Bagby; banquet, Alison Mathews; tickets, Jane Johnson; publicity, Nina Ratzersdorfer; and commuter representative, Luretta Valtz. Connaught O'Connell is play chairman; Dorothy Tobkin an Helen Puro, co-directors; and Barbara Pitts, production head...