Archive for the 'Music' Category

State of the art Sound System 1927

The New Orthophonic Victrola Record Player
THINK of having America’s greatest dance-organizations at your beck and call! Orchestras that would cost a small fortune to engage for a single evening! Through the new Orthophonic Victrola and the amazing new Orthophonic Victor Records, you can bring these selfsame orchestras right into your home. Exactly as you would [...]

Passing of the Jazz Age 1927

JAZZ – THE GOOD NEWS FROM ROME
LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD should welcome, and do, the good news from the Vatican that the jazz age is passing, and that the flood of immorality which lapped every shore is receding. Civilization is returning to normalcy, custom is becoming sane, Governments are checking orgiastic vices, religion everywhere is [...]

Gulbransen Pianos and Pianolas 1926

YOU have missed the greatest joy in music if you have never played yourself
And now you can. You need no musical training. Yet, you can play with all the expression, with all the skill of a practiced pianist.
You can enjoy the thrill of putting yourself into the music you playâ€”your own touch, your own personality.
It [...]

Star Spangled Banner 1921

“LET US ALL SING THE LAST VERSE”
SO MANY COMPLAINTS have been raised against the “Star-Spangled Banner” as a national anthem that a new suggestion for its use is always welcome. A writer to the New York Herald points out that the last verse of the hymn, rather than the first, expresses American feeling and is [...]

Jazz – A Scourge, 1921

Unspeakable Jazz Must Go! It is worse than Saloon and Scarlet Vice, Testify Professional Dance Experts – Only a Few Cities are Curbing Evil.
EXPERTS tell in this article the nation-wide aspects of our jazz scourge. They say legal prohibition of all dancing may come.
Â A reform movement has been started by cities and volunteer groups. [...]

American Premiere of Ravel’s Bolero in 1929

HISSES HAVE FOLLOWED THE RENDITION of much modern music, but joy would have warmed the heart of the Frenchman, Ravel, to hear the shouts and plaudits following Toscanini’s conducting of his “Bolero.” The composition is a year old, and was presented, two weeks ago, for the first time in New York. Carnegie Hall rocked; and [...]