Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the years of retirement, Sibelius never moved far from his house, wrapped himself in cigar smoke and in music (he liked to listen to concerts from all over the world on a powerful short-wave set). Said he wistfully of jazz: "If I were only younger!" Of cowboy ballads: "They never get grey hair, do they?" He was said to have composed steadily, but nobody was able to discover just what the music was like. From 1932 on, when the late Serge Koussevitzky announced that he hoped to premiere Sibelius' Eighth Symphony with the Boston Symphony, audiences looked...
...fingerprints. Though the little mustache, baggy pants and cane are gone, flashes of the old Chaplin illuminate the screen as he pokes fun at rock 'n' roll, Hollywood movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about witch-hunting, the atom bomb, freedom ("There's no freedom here . . . They don't give you a passport"). The Committee...
...current, softly keyed, lacily figured style with its murky chords is an extension of that early cool style, and she is playing it better than ever. Says Marian McPartland, a first-rate jazz pianist in her own right, who for two weeks shared the bill with Mary Lou: "Just playing with her, my own playing has improved a thousand percent!" All the selections Mary Lou plays at The Composer are her own arrangements, including such standards as Somebody Loves Me (with strong, marching chords and racing right hand) and a limber, longing I'm in the Mood for Love...
...story is set in the late 1940s. told in the first person by Sal Paradise, a budding writer given to ecstasies about America, hot jazz, the meaning of life, and marijuana. The book's protagonist is Dean Moriarty ("a sideburned hero of the snowy West"), who has spent a third of his waking time in poolrooms, a third in jail, a third in public libraries, and is always shouting "Yes, yes, yes!" to every experience. Dean and Sal and their other buddies-Carlo Marx, the frenzied poet; Ed Dunkel, an amiable cipher; Remi Boncoeur, who has the second loudest...
...fringes of the Communist upper-crust drift several hundred fellow U.S. Communists and fellow travelers of lesser rank. Bearded and beardless, they idle away the hours in avant-garde jazz cellars, drink tequila and loaf. But the top-line expatriates live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even...