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During his first decade in America, as Rózsa worked to establish his career and family, he produced little music outside of films. He did teach, however, and in 1945 inaugurated America’s first university-based film composition course at the University of Southern California, where he continued to teach for some twenty years.
Dec 15, 2014 · This native son of Hungary came to the United States in 1940, expecting to stay no more than a month; instead, the move proved permanent, and Rózsa became an American citizen in 1945. Nevertheless, his homeland was never far from his thoughts or his muse, and he paid a return visit in 1974 to popular acclaim.
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Dec 1, 2001 · This piece, one of the finest sets of orchestral variations composed in the 20th century, became Rózsa’s calling card, attracting the attention of conductors throughout Europe and America.
Apr 28, 2023 · Following in the footsteps of greats like Adolph Zukor, William Fox, Béla Lugosi, Al Lichtman, Leslie Howard, Sir Alexander Korda, George Cukor, and Tony Curtis, Miklós Rózsa did just the same. Born on April 18, 1907 in Budapest, he grew up in an progressive family that valued the arts, education and culture. He started playing the violin at ...
- How Did Jazz Come to Rule The World?
- A Profound Effect on Music
- The End of The Jazz Age
- The Swing Era
- Jazz During Wartime
- Crooning
- Bebop: Jazz as Intellectual Art
- Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
- Jazz Versus Rock’N’Roll
- The Jazz Revival
So how did jazz come to rule the world? For the answer to that, let’s travel back to America in 1920. World War I had ended two years previously and the jubilation felt at the prospect of peace was combined with an economic boom and a post-war optimism that dovetailed with the younger generation’s desire for greater personal freedom. But the prospe...
While the rise of jazz is inextricably bound up with the American government’s decision to introduce Prohibition, it also thrived because of a crucial technological development that would have a profound effect on the spread of music as a whole – the gramophone record. Recorded sound had been around since 1877, but it wasn’t until 1918 that the pho...
Hollywood movies also helped to cement the popularity of jazz and give it a strong cultural presence in the US (indeed, the first “talking picture” was 1927’s The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson). But on October 29, 1929 a cataclysmic event brought the curtain down on the jazz age and ended the non-stop party that had defined the 20s. The bill had ...
For some, the swing era exploded into life on a Wednesday evening in August 1935. That was the night when a relatively unknown clarinet player called Benny Goodman took his band to Los Angeles’ Palomar Ballroom and brought the house down with hot, syncopated arrangements. Assisted by the power of a new marketing tool called radio, Goodman began sel...
Jazz music had helped to raise both spirits and morale during the dark days of the Great Depression, which was officially declared over in 1939, as the green shoots of economic recovery began to blossom. Soon afterwards, however, it also became the soundtrack to a new, and more serious, problem – World War II. While the war raged, jazz records – pa...
The US charts reflected the waning influence of the big bands during the final two years of the war, when pop vocalists began to thrive and prosper. In the big band age, singers were usually added to augment the sound, and got a feature spot to perform a few numbers, but now they were branching out on their own. Both Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatraha...
This was the start of jazz being perceived as intellectual art music as opposed to its previous role as functional dance music. Bebopproved too outré and avant-garde for those whose ears were not attuned to its bold, new argot, but its influence grew as the 40s moved towards 1950. A young trumpeter called Miles Davis, who was apprenticed to Parker ...
While California was the capital of cool jazz, New York became the foundry where hard bop was forged. Hard bop had much more heat and intensity than the West Coast sound and was a variant of bebop that drew on blues and gospel. The architects of hard bop included pianist Horace Silver and drummer Art Blakey, who co-founded The Jazz Messengers in 19...
But by the time that Miles and Coltrane were taking jazz music in new directions, a seismic event had happened in music that pushed jazz right down the pecking order and ended its long reign as the world’s most popular and dominant musical idiom. This phenomenon was called rock’n’roll. When it emerged in 1955, it was first viewed as a passing teen ...
Since then, jazz music – especially the instrumental variety – has largely remained a minority concern. Though it has witnessed an occasional revival or two, there is nothing to suggest that it will regain its long-lost crown. But thanks to the rise of charismatic singer Gregory Porter, jazz has seen some healthy mainstream chart action recently. G...
From 1942 to 1944, as a member of the big bands led by Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine, Gillespie had worked side by side with Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, an extraordinary musician. He possessed an unmatched rhythmic fluency and harmonic intelligence steeped in the 12-bar blues-based, Kansas City swing style of the Count Basie band and its ...
Jazz is a fluid form of expression, a quality that led critic Whitney Balliett to characterize the music in an oft-quoted phrase as “the sound of surprise.”. Several characteristics contribute to jazz’s surprising nature. A primary factor is the rhythmic energy of jazz, which incorporates both the motion of dance and the inflections of ...
