Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the various chapters-"The Formation of Personal Opinion," "The Nature of Group Opinion and of Public Opinion," "Organized Religion," "The Press," "Music," "The Radio," "Chambers of Commerce," "The Demagogue," "The Political Party," and "Public Opinion," etc.-Professor Graves reprints articles by competent observers. Walter Lippmann, chief editorial writer for the New York World, is the most quoted man in the book. Others are Sigmund Freud, John Broadus Watson, Otto Hermann Kahn, Bruce Barton, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Oswald Garrison Villard, Clinton Wallace (Mirrors) Gilbert, William Bennett Munro, and several...
...recall the stares a man once gave me when I wrote down my occupation as 'composer.' Might just as well have written down 'ballet dancer.' People had the idea that music was a woman's business, like, well, like knitting. A musician and a poet had a pretty hard...
Three times now George Gershwin has set foot over the line that divides formal and informal music; three times taken his own jazz notions, compounded them seriously and presented them, not for any singing or dancing they might invoke, but for listening purposes only. First was the Rhapsody in Blue and with it much talk of "classical jazz" gospeled by Paul Whiteman. Then came the Concerto in F, but by that time Gershwin had become a creed with many and the Concerto had its premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony...
...most part amused by Gershwin's pictures. They spied him, sleek and smiling, sitting in a box, and clapped him cordially. Gershwin's critical public is still a house divided against itself. To the extremists on the one hand he is making the most significant music of the day. To others he is out of place and ineffective away from Tin-Pan Alley. Certainly the Concerto, trying to be important, was unoriginal and dull. But with An American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner...
...Recent shows with Gershwin music are Lady Be. Good, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Rosalie...