HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN This issue of theI:COLLEGIAN is dedicated to Professor Pearl Gaibrick, Parnassus, • and especially the high ideals wh.iCh • Parnassus maintains for each and every one of us...* .. MEDITATIQN --- F. E,. SULLIVAN The day is colored hoary—grey 'My thoughts are chalky-white The sky is grey The sun is 'black .2he vulture is our hoast His narrow bead devours our age. s innards is our goal. He lifts heavily over ill—green seas. And climbs And dies Axed falls. The slime from whence we came To be our final homes ss THE NEW POPULARITY OF JAZZ lorroe Berger In spite of its hOing - been frequently pronounced dead or dying, jazz is now enjoying another period of relative popularity, Music lovers of all previous affiliations, including ex-jitterbugs and devotees of the classics, flock to concerts 7 . t. Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in New York„ and similar halls in other cities, well as to night clubs in New York's cnwich Village and Fifty-Second Street. ib3se places have become the main auditoriums for jazz. "he character of its audience reveals long journey jazz has made from its days in New Orleans at the turn of he century. During its birth and early 1241 jaza-APPeloaoldobiefiy to poor and FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10 1958 often lliterateNegroes, who heard it in their saloOna and dance halls. To— day it has entered our most halloweden concert halls, where it attracts mainly middle class intellectual whites who do not find this kind of mmsic in their traditional places of enjoyment, but have to seek it out, In forty years jazz has :travelled fron, the lied Light distrittAo the concert hail. This odyisey:was not made without set--- backs and difficulties of many kinda, Until quite recently the city of New Orleans was one of the most ardent dis— paragers of the jazz music which, one day, scholars may agree s is that city's most lasting contribution to American culture. When, for example, the name Basin Street acquired scandalous cones notations,the New Orleans civic leaders, with.true semantic blindness, changed its name to North Saratoga Street. The sit Nation is quite reversed t0day.317:1944 4 jazz lovers of New Orleans organi%ed a National Jazz Foundation.which stated that one of its aims was to bring back to that city much of the jazz music that was born and flourished there. Semantio sanity apparently returned, too r for the name Basin Street was restored. (Art conspired with business, no doubt s to attract the tourist.) Finally plans were made to elevate jazz to a new staL:s by the construction of a jazz museum in a warehouse bUildiO&on Basin Street neav Canal, formerly known as Lulu Nhitels ,Mahogany ore of the city's wickedest spots. The kind of jazz that we have been dis— cussing has been the subject of innumer , able debates concerning its character and definition, To avoid another one let us merely Say that jazz is the music originated around 1890 by negroes of No* Orleans, developed and spread from it birthplace by both Negroes and whitet t and still played in our day generally by small bands of musicians who are not very familiar to the public, whose mesa tastes are satisfied by the derivatives of jazz. ' , Genuine" jazz is distinguished from popular or "commercial" music* whiCl7. is composed in Hollywood and on BrOadway o and played by "name bands" (and by aspirin
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