Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them are handled most economically when handled in conjunction with other functions occurring almost simultaneously. Most of them are carried out most efficiently with the aid of the University business office. About all the Committee actually bothers itself with is the question of whether to hire a sweet or swing band for the Class Spread...
...Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard it. They put English lyrics to Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, retained the original title, carried it to Harms, their publishers. Harms, delighted with the plaintive, minor tune that sounded like a Hebrew lament in swing time, arranged with J. & J. Kammen Music Co. to split royalties from the English version between Chaplin & Cahn and Secunda & Jacobs...
Although France is mightier than Germany, Nazis have managed to win and keep allies by sabre rattling, while France finds it necessary to pour out millions of francs to buy and keep her allies in Mitteleuropa. Last week French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos continued upon his planned swing through Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 13). He was treated much like a visiting butter...
...Negro Folk Symphony No. 1 was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Conductor Stokowski three years ago; Otto Cesana, onetime staff composer at Manhattan's Radio City, whose two jazz-inspired symphonies have been broadcast by Radio Maestro Erno Rapee; 23-year-old Radio Arranger Morton Gould, whose Swing Symphonette is scheduled for performance later this season...
George Gershwin, Louis Gruenberg, John Alden Carpenter, most famous of U. S. nationalist composers, have avoided jazz symphonies, contenting themselves with writing rhapsodies, operas, ballets, tone-poems. Loudest pooh-poohing of their efforts has come, not from high-brow critics and musicians, but from swing and hot jazz fans who find this symphonic jazz stiff and imitative...