Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kennedy knows a number of fellow enthusiasts in University officialdom, but has not found any other "Jazz fiends" in University Rall, his home territory. In the Faculty, he eites particularly David Owen, professor of History, with when he frequently gets together for jazz conferences...
Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar and jazz fan, will inaugurate a series of broadcasts featuring Faculty and Administration disc jockeys when he steps before a WHRV mike at 7:30 o'clock tonight...
Although he has not yet decided which of his 300 records he will use on tonight's program, last night he was considering favorably some recent repressings of pre 1930 jazz classics. One thing is certain --all of his selections will come from the twenties. Harvard traditionalism has permeated his tastes in music enough to exclude the hybrid jazz of the thirties from his collection...
...long-dormant spirit of dink-wearing" has been revived and Nassau, with '50 reveling in its gory glory, looks to the jazz-mad good old days for inspiration...
...little unnerving to 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky, and when he saw the papers, he denied that he had written the arrangement: he had only okayed it. Stravinsky once wrote an elephant's polka for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, and a jazz concerto for Woody Herman (neither had the common touch). He will get double the going Tin Pan Alley rates for Summer Moon, and a 50-50 split on movie rights. Said he: "According to the newspapers, the only reason I wrote this arrangement was to make money. I am very glad if I do make money...