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...question like that can cause one of three reactions in a swing critic: insanity, high blood pressure, or a shrug. All this is old hat to the boys in the know, but there comes a time when a would-be swing critic wants to get the subject of Glenn Miller off his chest, once...
...whole matter can be answered with a question: "What do you expect from a swing band?" If you expect dance music, the latest pop tunes, and a few rhythmic novelties, Miller's your man. But considering the past achievements of other bands, a critic has the right to expect more than that. Even if your tastes are confined to popular songs, Artie Shaw had infinitely better selection. Miller plugs anything the publishers are behind; Shaw plugged good old tunes if he couldn't find any good new ones...
...because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater who had ever read a book...
Carr clearly saw the social revolution coming and believes that World War II is part of it. But his quiet, lucid revolutionary outlook upon the world of today is not hooked up with Communism. Indeed, British pinks sniff at Carr of the Times as a "self-appointed critic of Marxism...
...case in Europe until Wagner's time. We have a plethora of composers: What we lack is men writing music. Shostakovitch, the most talented and promising of the moderns, is a case in point. In his recent Seventh symphony, which Haggin of the "Nation," a top-notch critic, called "pretentious, feeble, inane, and banal," he was trying to express the heroic character of the time we live in although his own nature is unwarlike and introverted. He attempted to say with music what was in the nature of the case impossible...