Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...culprits pressed for its return, they surrendered a skull which passed for Haydn's. But it was not. Like a historic football, the real article was kicked around Austria for 75 years until it landed in a glass case in the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Esterhazy family (on whose estate Haydn lived and was mostly buried) announced that until the skull was returned, no one could have access to the valuable collection of Haydn manuscripts in the family library. Last November a truce was made. By last week Haydn was whole again, and the Esterhazy...
Another big step in Haydn scholarship was taken in Manhattan last week when the New Friends of Music (no kin to the Vienna Friends) played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe...
...with Woody Herman and "The Band That Plays The Blues" at the Kirkland House dance tonight, and Jack Teagarden, considered by many to be one of the greatest soloists in jazz, coming to Dunster House next Friday, it looks as though we are going to hear lots of the music that Paul Whiteman says "is the basis of all Jazz...
Notes between the notes: Truly magnificent swing criticism is advanced in a mildly insane article by Robert Benchley in the February issue of Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James...
...announcer's patent-leather voice was gliding over the air-waves. He spoke in a voice that was hushed with respect. "Music by Chopin . . arranged by Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem...