Word: symphonicment
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SYMPHONIC, ETC.
I ran across recently a notice advertising a jazzed-up version of Beethoven's Fifth symphony,--"Beethoven's liveliest symphony, with victory emphasized throughout"--and was inclined to consider this more a flattery than otherwise. That the jazz boys need this increasing recourse to the hoary classics at all is...
What the concert aimed to do was to revivify a form of popular music which had lately become much less popular. In the 1920s, when jazz flourished in Chicago, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. By 1936 hot jazz had weaned a commercially successful...
Other symphonic records of the month:
Kern: Show Boat: Scenario for Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome...