Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation reached a peak some weeks ago when RCA Victor sent out a publicity notice to the effect that Erskine Hawkins "had been signed for the production". Hawkins to me and most people connected with jazz in this country typifies the exact antithesis of the type Dorothy Baker was trying to portray in her book. He plays noisily, at fast tempos, without taste--in other words, strictly one of the powerhouse boys...
Greatest operatic tenor of the past century was tall, handsome, Polish-born Jean de Reszke, who retired in 1901. In the late 1890s, when Tenor de Reszke was at his peak, the phonograph was a scratchy-voiced toy. Said he: "Jean de Reszke will never be preserved...