"Syncopating Saxophones" blossomed from the soil. Day after day, have I looked across the tops of the six dozen music stands of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and there seen its author responsive and responsible, one eye on the printed page, the other eye on the conductor, and fingers busy on the bass clarinet's silvered keys. By night your dancing, eating pleasure seekers have seen him in a small group, a unit among players just as expert, just as fervent in the practice of another art, an art, by the way, as exacting as ...
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"Syncopating Saxophones" blossomed from the soil. Day after day, have I looked across the tops of the six dozen music stands of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and there seen its author responsive and responsible, one eye on the printed page, the other eye on the conductor, and fingers busy on the bass clarinet's silvered keys. By night your dancing, eating pleasure seekers have seen him in a small group, a unit among players just as expert, just as fervent in the practice of another art, an art, by the way, as exacting as that of his daytime occupation. Hence, when Brother Frankenstein says "The jazz orchestra of today is a perfect thing, as perfect in its field as a large symphony orchestra-" he is not talking from the point of view of a man who has done a little singing, and a little piano playing, a little concert going and a little dancing in cabarets. He has worked in both ensembles. He has read everything printed by the bigwigs of the western world. He has played the works of the French "Six," whose debt to American "ragtime" in its Paris invasion of two decades ago sometime will be comprehended and explained. He has seen and talked with the Russian Stravinski in the workshop of actual symphony orchestra rehearsal. He is the doer who is become vocal.
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