Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music? I don't know what to say about it. I love it, I love to play it, and I love to hear it!" Such was Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong's eminently satisfactory comment on the Art of the Hour, Swing Music. The greatest trumpeter since that day at Jericho when "The people heard the sound of the trumpet and the wall fell down flat." (Joshua VI, 20). Louis Armstrong, whom Hugues Panassie, the author of "Le Jazz Hot", considers "not only a genius in his own art, but one of the most extraordinary creative geniuses that all music has over...
...Hollywood was grand. And Ring Cros-by-you know I worked with him in 'Pennies From Heaven'--why I've known Ring for so long, I've watched him grow. He's almost like one of my boys and he can swing too, though they never give him much of a chance. Armstrong almost blushed when complimented on his loss of weight. "Yeah I guess the Hollywood diet must have got me. Why, when I was in Boston a year ago I had a brown suit that was tight like a drum. But I don't seem to be able...
...white academic gowns, pin red roses to their shoulders, and file out upon the stage of Town Hall to sing publicly the music they have been singing all year in church. When this happens, Town Hall is invariably packed to the doors. Students, critics, laymen and churchmen well know that no other organization in the U. S. can sing plain song so perfectly as the Pius X School Choir. Last week Manhattanites were marveling again that any choir could get such feeling out of archaic melodies and Latin texts...
...excited about contemporary problems unless you know what they are. . . . Last fall a very fair proportion of the students I talked to in a big state university had no idea there was a war going on in Spain. . . . Two years ago . . " I found plenty of students who had never heard of the Abyssinian...
...ideas for them everywhere, except when driving a car. I try and think of something slithering around and the next thing I know I'm in the ditch...