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Some critics believe that most of Hin demith's later work fails to measure up to the vigorous and imaginative music of the 1920s, in which he so brilliantly enlarged the neo-classical movement. But Hindemith rarely listens to the critics. In all the 20th century, he insists, there are only two men who deserve the name Composer: Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. And perhaps, his admirers believe, Paul Hindemith...
American jazz was first imported in the 1920s, and became "enemy music" to Japan's generals in World War II. Western music came back deafeningly in the U.S. occupation. In the years since, Japanese fans have staggered through the big-band beat, calypso, rockabilly and other crazes. Beginning last year, modern jazz, progressive and otherwise, has taken over the joints. At last count, Japan has some 3,000 union-registered jazz musicians noodling away at the out sounds of such current favorites as Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Miles Davis. They have even picked up the lingo, and added...
...Toyas (Breasts of the World), the Colorado town of Walsenburg is a battered relic of the Old West, scarred by deserted downtown stores, unpainted houses, potholed streets. Once a thriving coal town, Walsenburg sank into slow decline when its customers started switching to oil and gas in the 1920s. The population gradually shrank by one-third, to 5,500, and the town's prime source of income became federal and state welfare handouts. Then, last year, the exasperated women of Walsenburg rebelled...
Died. Leland Olds, 69, regulation-minded Federal Power Commission member from 1939 to 1949 (mostly as chairman), a zealous New Dealer and longtime target of private power interests, whose third-term nomination was rejected by the Senate following hearings centering on his heavy-breathing socialist writings of the 1920s ("The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people."); of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...Yankees' flinty Manager Casey Stengel got rained out of a big salute planned in Yankee Stadium for his 70th birthday. So he retired to the catacombs of Yankee Stadium for a slice of birthday cake and a stroll down memory lane instead, fondly remembering the day in the 1920s when he and some other big leaguers met Britain's King George V. Each player, upon being introduced to His Highness, was told to say: "I'm honored." The first few players carried off their lines perfectly. But not brash Casey Stengel. "When the King gets...