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...Downbeat critic George Avakian (of Yale) picked the tunes and the musicians, supervised the recording and wrote the notes for the album. In short, thanks to Avakian, the musicians themselves, the Chicago tradition, and the courage of Decca in producing what many thought at first to be saleable only to a small group of enthusiasts, the public can get an album of playing in the true Chicago tradition. More than that, it can get a sense of jazz as it is really played at late-of-night sessions in out of the way bistros and honky-tonks. This is great...
...water, and the proverbial shoemaker and his last are recalled. Mr. Van Doren at no time runs the danger of such unflattering parallels, for as the readers of "The Transients" can well testify, he has earned renown as a novelist commensurate with that which he has gained as a critic and poet. And he has earned it, as he does now, by writing novels which can stand by themselves as mature and expert productions. If one discerns the poet in this novelist, it is because he brings to his work a sense of form and structure which other novelists might...
Topping them all was the James Chapin retrospective at the Associated American Artists' Galleries. For it, Critic Edward Alden Jewell went off the deep end. Wrote he: "It establishes his position as second to none in our contemporary roster. It contains some of the finest painting of our time. It ... constitutes a full and ringing American challenge. In a word, this show is the real thing...
...years passed, Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps bid fair to be the most fought-over composition of the 20th Century. One English critic described it as "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions," declared that it should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, a dentist celebrated for murdering his wife, cutting her body in pieces. But dapper, energetic Igor Stravinsky found himself the most influential composer of his generation. To younger composers the Sacre became music's Declaration of Independence. By 1920 nearly every musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans...
...first water, probably none of them could tear themselves out of the bowels of Widener long enough to whip out to the West and the arms of La Sheridan. Hence on her shapely shoulders rests the responsibility of showing the shining light of success to the benighted dramatic critic of the Poon in particular and the student body in general...