Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pacific 231 won Honegger fame from Boston to California. It stimulates the vogue for putting all manner of mechanical sounds into music. Alone, and on first hearing, however, it failed to inspire any widespread confidence. People were becoming increasingly wary of modern composers. Repeated hearings of the Pacific were necessary to convince that it was more than freakish stuff. But for five years now it has endured, and since, substantiating it as ringing, vital music, there have been King David, Antigone, Judith, now Rugby...
...been just a precocious fellow who at seven had composed two operas in the treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties one of the Group of Six in Paris, blustering fellows, so many thought, organized to acquaint the public with their music. Now Honegger remains supreme of the Six. His wife. Pianist Andree Vaurabourg-Honegger, plays his compositions, last week played with him his delectable Concertino. Pacific 231 he now calls Boom! Boom! Rugby, a sound picture of a football match, teems with driving conflict. It takes twelve minutes to play...
...apartments on both sides of the hall, on every floor. The June day has been a scorcher ?"Hottest July fifteent' in fawty-one yizz. Yeah. Six dead in Chicago and no relief in sight, the paper says"?and Mrs. (First Floor) Florentine, Teuton wife of the Italian music teacher, is telling Mrs. (Second Floor) Jones how she "sveat all day, took a bat and sveat some more." Abraham Kaplan, also first floor, strains his eyes, moves his lips as he reads the Jewish Forward in the sultry dusk...
Frank Maurrant, belligerently righteous stagehand, appears. He is the type that lives with his lower teeth bared. Filippo Fiorentino, music teacher, appears, bearing ice cream cones for everybody. Mrs. Hildebrand and tots appear in time to be caught by a social service worker as they come from the movies: they have been living on charity since Mr. Hildebrand ran off with another woman. More talk of the heat. The crowd disperses. It is quiet except for the rumble of the subway, the bell of a fire engine, the bark of a dog. Mrs. Maurrant's daughter Rose appears with...
Dana Hall girls are not allowed to own phonographs. They have their music, nevertheless, in spite of the rules. Girls from this school spend over an hour in the music shop at least once a week listening to all the new releases. When they enter Wellesley they may enjoy their own music...