Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn toward chamber music is an interesting element of modern times, and the place of Paul Hindemith, who is playing tomorrow night in Paine Hall, is at the head of this movement. He represents a general turn from the grandiose conception of music and musicians nurtured in the romantic era. This change of attitude consists of a shift of emphasis from the idea of an artist as a man removed from the ordinary course of life by his inspiration and genius to the conception of an artist as an excellent workman--one who intends his product for use in every...
...Heads-up" directness of the harmonic and rhythmic movement given this music clear, biting force. The texture is usually rigidly contrapuntal, and there is an unexcelled feeling for the directness of lines which, though they wander far tonally, are always clearly logical and purposeful. His method of mixing counterpoints which are rather free in their tonal relationship is balanced by a solidity of harmonic plan which, with frequent, strong cadences brings all voices to a common destination...
...There is a momentary pause while water and carbon monoxide combine to form methyl alcohol. As the synthesis proceeds the music turns into a syncopated Cakewalk, the dance of ethyl alcohol. . . . The atoms hesitate, swaying and staggering about, intoxicated by the motions they have discovered. . . . The chemist awakens and rushes to the centre of the stage...
Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
...windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among U. S. political reformers, won the Democratic nomination for Governor after an eight-day fight; at the State House in Frankfort eight months later he was shot...