Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History is not going to judge music by its original environment or function, however much these factors influenced its creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana...
...Spanish bandmaster, was brought to the Mexican capital by Santa Anna. When irate peons chased one-legged Santa Anna out in the revolution of 1855, Nuño left too. Tired out perhaps by a musician's lot in upsy-downsy Mexican politics, Nuño later settled down to the less turbulent life of Buffalo, N.Y. There he ran a small music academy in the 1870s and '80s. There, in 1906, he was buried...
...orchestra may not be able to buck Petrillo's New Order much longer. In Boston, orchestra and union officials were at last getting together. In Manhattan, many a musician was betting that Boston Symphony players will never again enter Carnegie Hall without union cards...
...rake in the shekels, but he plays good music far more consistently. Those who have been attracted to the Ken by Pee Wee Russell's fame and clarineting have invariably stayed to hear Davison. On the basis of tone alone, or ideas alone, he is undoubtedly a top-ranking musician. James may play more obviously difficult pieces, but Davison occasionally gets off some amazingly technical stuff himself, and this always in good taste...
Navy, their own heroes of previous wars. They drill pridefully, rhythmically, marching up & down the parade ground chanting their own songs, composed by a Negro musician, second class...