Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of Swingster Benny Goodman, who had just finished another genteel Carnegie Hall venture (TIME, Jan. 23), trod last week another classically-minded swingster. At a concert by Manhattan's year-old Bach Circle, Negro Swing-Pianist Teddy Wilson delicately pecked an 18th-Century harpsichord. Playing Bach's Concerto in C Minor for Two Harpsichords and Strings with Harpsichordist Yella Pessl for a partner, Harpsichordist Wilson forgot all about his pedals, stomped out Bach's rhythm with one foot...
...relaxation Elizabeth Bowen likes movies, music (swing as well as Beethoven), long walks, small, gay dinner parties. A poised and witty hostess, she knows many people, but her close friends are fellow writers: H. G. Wells, who lives nearby, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Rose Macaulay...
...Swing to Right...
...filled by three men. Thomas R. Powell, Langdell Professor of Law, takes over in Administrative Law; Professor Henry M. Hart will go behind the desk in Federal Jurisdiction; and Dean Landis is putting himself in to handle both Public Utilities and Labor Law. In other words, no pronounced swing, to the Right is contemplated...
...Most swing enthusiasts are bored by highbrow music; most concertgoers are irritated by swing. But the world's No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world's No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny Goodman, have long admired each other. When Hungarian-born Szigeti heard Goodman last year, he was so impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending...