Music: Jazz Flayed
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"Mr. Whiteman's ideas on this subject indeed are illuminative. He would not have 'Onward Christian Soldiers' jazzed because this is a 'sturdy majestic tune with a religious connection,' but the 'Peer Gynt Suite' and the 'Poet and Peasant Overture,' why not jazz them?
"Argument would be wasted on him and people of his way of thinking. All we musicians can do or say to him and them is, 'Jazz hymns, ancient and modern and future, as much as you like—most of these are hardly above your own intellectual level—but keep your dirty paws off your betters.' "
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