Word: rags
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...floods of rag-time and jazz are to sweep away all the dikes of protection against them, they will begin their work with the music-makers of the younger generation. They might easily prevail in this community were the programs of the Harvard Glee Club given over to the modern equivalents of "Upidee." It is entirely reassuring, therefore, to see the selections that have been chosen for the first concert--and to know that Dr. Davison, who practices good music as effectively as he preaches it, is to conduct them all. Lovers of the best choral music well sung will...
...totality, "Flora Bella" pleases one more by daintiness and finish than by the uproar and enthusiasm of more usual musical comedy. It veers towards the opera; thus sacrificing something in rag-time effect--the type that one usually expects...
...play medleys of college songs and the University Mandolin Club will, in addition, give a medley entitled "The Thousand and One Nights." The general high tone of the Glee Club songs has been maintained throughout the entire program so that it will be entertaining, and not composed essentially of "rag-time," though that element, as well as college songs, will be represented...
...criticised as "mutilated ragtime." "Fair Harvard" is only one selection from a medley played by the band during regimental manoeuvres, and has been changed from 6-8 to 2-4 time, so that the rhythm may be fit for marching. There is a distinct difference between march time and rag-time...
...Regimental affair. Those interested in the musical activities of the college are inclined to be unusually charitable toward an admirable institution, which may blunder through no fault other than its youth; but members of the older musical organizations cannot help feeling that the playing of "Fair Harvard" in mutilated rag-time, as it was rendered at the meet Saturday, is, at best, an extraordinary violation of good taste in the light of Harvard tradition...