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...over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form is identical with that of the classical passacaglia, a kind of dance music (of Spanish origin) that was old stuff to Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple of boogie-woogie has been a subterranean Leftist cabaret in Greenwich Village called Café Society. Its high priests: Negroes Albert...
...after hour, day after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs plowing up the city's remaining defenses. To the North, the continuous thunder of artillery made a background for the nearer hammering of defense guns on the East, hurling shells over the rooftops toward the German positions in the western suburbs...
Director Hanson, who raised his goatee when he was studying in Rome because he thought young musicians attracted too little attention, still defends the young U. S. composer with crotchety vigor. No modernist himself, he personally dislikes the dissonant groanings and thumpings of the musical Kulturbolschewiki. But he will defend to the death their right to groan and thump...
...write a speech which he delivered next day in the Senate. "To attempt to coerce is fatal, to attempt to outwit is disastrous," thundered Senator Thomas. "Presidents will continue to be made and unmade in the actions of the Senate of the United States." When Senators rushed up to thump Elbert Thomas' back, congratulate him, invite him to lunch, he weakly smiled that he wanted to go home...
...every Goodman performance. Jiggling jitterbugs hung on every drumbeat; some partisans found Krupa the sugar in the Goodman coffee. Last winter, following Goodman's triumphal appearances in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME. Jan. 24) and elsewhere. Drummer Krupa decided that he was too important a figure to thump modestly along as Goodman's sidekick, decided to form his own band. Experts, pained of late by his exhibitionism, shook their heads dubiously; but last week on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, when Drummer Krupa's new orchestra got into their groove, 5,000 pop-eyed adolescents...