Word: musical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea themselves and hire a likely author to do the job. Since they first tried out their system with Will Durant's Story of Philosophy, they have successfully sold a volume apiece on religion, art, mathematics, history, science, adventure and astronomy. Last week they got around to music...
...exception to the Simon & Schuster rule, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock's Men of Music, was deliberately modeled on a previous success,Thomas Craven's Men of Art. To write it, the publishers hired no established bigwig of professional music criticism, but a couple of relative unknowns, one a member of their own editorial staff. Result: Men of Music avoids the pious saws and muddy technical jargon of conventional musical biography, describes racily and well the flights and foibles of those posey, neurotic, childlike, hardheaded geniuses who wrote the world's great symphonies and operas...
Authors Brockway & Weinstock's fluently expressed prejudices will give a jolt or two to dyed-in-tradition music-lovers. For them Chopin is "the most truly original of all composers"; bob-haired, ecclesiastic Liszt "the most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...
...World War II is anathema. How to keep the U. S. out of it has become his most solemn thought. Month ago at Chicago's American Legion Convention he got a bright idea: a popular song, a song that would sweep the nation like Barney Google or The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...
Serious, handsome Jay C. got Professional Songwriter Harry Harris (collaborator in the current hit: Baby Me), told him what he wanted. Last week he had it: a baleful ditty, words and music by Harris, fervent approval by pop-eyed Songster Eddie Cantor, title by Hormel...