Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rivier "left nothing behind it but regret that Paris had devoted itself to the pursuit of the American fox."-W. J. Henderson in the New York...
...Janssen was "merely inconsequential."-Lawrence Gilman in the New York Herald Tribune...
...seldom-heard Jour d'Eté la Montagne, then three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner Janssen, 30, Manhattan jazz pianist and composer. Critics paid scant attention to the first half of the program. The Chabrier was tame, the d'Indy lovely but pallid. The Clevelanders played well, but the last half agitated some critical pens...
...Theremin, admittedly an uncannily clever invention, Olin Downes wrote in the New York Times: ''We do not like to think of a populace at the mercy of this fearfully magnified and potent tone that Professor Theremin has brought into the world. The radio machines are bad enough, but what will happen to the auditory nerves in a land where super-Theremin machines can hurl a jazz ditty through the atmosphere with such horribly magnified sonorities that they could deaden the sound of an automobile exhaust from 20 miles away...
...Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction, the Metropolitan was unwilling to wait two years more. Said the New York Evening Post: From 50 to 100 of the obstructing leases are held by speakeasies...