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...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 but adulterated form of itself: swing. Today, it is commercial swing und the smooth, symphonic arrangements of name bands that make big money and attract jitterbugs...
Wagner: Three Deathless Songs (Helen Traubel, soprano, with Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 4 sides). The title is Victor's, the songs Träume (Dreams), Im Treibhaus (In the Greenhouse), Schmerzen (Afflictions) - the first two studies for Tristan und Isolde. Traubel sings opulently...
...hotel. There is no room reserved for me. I get vun. I go upstairs. I hear a big noise. I look out the vindow. It's a parade. There is a big band, the mayor of the city, the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Kivanis. Und it's Rockne they bring along. So ve go to the dinner. Ve speak. Vot do I give them? Pheelosophy! Vot does Rockne give them? High-school chokes! Vot do I get? Netting. Vot does Rockne get? Two hundred dollars...
...later years, Wagner was one of Germany's prime anti-Semites. He wrote Das Judenthum in der Musik (Judaism in Music), in Oper und Drama attacked a Jewish composer-Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Beer, of a Berlin banking family). But in the 18405, his letters now reveal, Wagner licked Jewish boots and liked it. Meyerbeer, whose brassy, spectacular operas influenced Wagner's early work, was a power not only in Berlin but in Paris, whose musical tastes he formed...
...counterattack and stabilize that front (see p. 27). But upon what happens when the Germans have emptied the kettle of Kiev and are ready again to pound the wedge depends the future of British-Russian cooperation on a common front (see p. 25) against that artist of Keil und Kessel, Adolf Hitler...