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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rivier "left nothing behind it but regret that Paris had devoted itself to the pursuit of the American fox."-W. J. Henderson in the New York...
...Janssen was "merely inconsequential."-Lawrence Gilman in the New York Herald Tribune...
...dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance me with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt...
Loudly have jobless U. S. musicians complained against the new sound-film devices (TIME, May 27, et seq.). Last week in Geneva their complaint was internationally amplified before the International Labor Organization, associate organization of the League of Nations, which had called a committee to consider ways and means of helping musicians compete with sound machines throughout the world...
...Marche Joyenuse, he presented d'Indy's seldom-heard Jour d'Eté la Montagne, then three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner Janssen, 30, Manhattan jazz pianist and composer. Critics paid scant attention to the first half of the program. The Chabrier was tame, the d'Indy lovely but pallid. The Clevelanders played well, but the last half agitated some critical pens...