Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Levin has "jammed" with Benny Goodman, Jimmy Lunceford, Glen Gray and Gene Krupa in his capacity as a piano player. He has ambitions to form a band here and feels that swing music is "jass in the truest sense of the world...
...Freshman Union Committee will give its second dance of the year on Friday night. Again, Don Gahan's music will be featured. The Union Committee, in conjunction with the dance, is conducting a poll among the members of the class to determine their favorite swing band. Thus far, Artie Shaw, the newest fad in popular music, is leading in votes. The musical arrangements of the winning orchestra will be played for one half hour during the evening...
...enquired for the works of this author, but could learn nothing more than that he was considered a madman and that his music was like himself...
Such a man intrigues Vag. Everyone knows that he went deaf before he was thirty and still composed some of the most superlative music of all time. But few know that, in his early life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom...
This morning at 10 the Vagabond will at last return to serious business. Having completely emerged from The Depths, he is planning to wander up to the Music building and hear more about a composer who has fascinated him. He has heard that the Music 1 devotees have arrived at that point; he knows (off the record) that, among other things, the last movement of the Second Symphony will be played before the hour is over; and he wants to see if that certain student with the incredible laugh is still spicing the proceedings with his outbursts of merriment...