Yradier, Sebastian, 27
Zabalza, 181, 187
Zandonai, 24, 25
Zapateado, 49, 191
Zarabanda, 43
Zarzuela, 14, 18, 62 _et seq._, 71, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 84, 86, 99,
145, 146, 148, 149, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 181, 183, 184,
185, 186, 187
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 93
"Zincali, The," 107 _et seq._
_Zorahayda_, 24
Zuloaga, 15, 99, 130, 156
Zurbaran, 33
What the Critics Say About Mr. Van Vechten's Work
What the Critics Say About Mr. Van Vechten's Work
Mr. Van Vechten has written and Alfred A. Knopf has published two other
books which should appeal to those who like "The Music of Spain." The
first of these, "Music and Bad Manners," contains the following seven
essays: Music and Bad Manners, Music for the Movies, Spain and Music,
Shall We Realize Wagner's Ideals? The Bridge Burners, A New Principle
in Music, Leo Ornstein.
"Interpreters and Interpretations" contains the following fourteen
essays: Olive Fremstad, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Feodor
Chaliapine, Mariette Mazarin, Yvette Guilbert, Waslav Nijinsky, The
Problem of Style in the Production of Opera, Notes on the _Armide_
of Gluck, Erik Satie, The Great American Composer, The Importance of
Electrical Picture Concerts, Modern Musical Fiction, and Why Music is
Unpopular.
Here is what Henry Blackman Sell of "The Chicago Daily News" has to say
of Mr. Van Vechten's work:
As one of that annoying clan who don't know anything about music except
that we know what we like, I hereby raise my voice to hymn Mr. Van
Vechten's intelligent pronouncements as a boon, a joy and a liberation.
Henceforth when I peruse the ponderous passages, which so often pass
for erudition in contemporary music criticism, I shall not sorrow with
myself in the mortification of ignorance, as of yore. No, no, I am
free. I have read of music and musicians in articles and essays written
by a man who is accredited in the most trustworthy quarters as being
a fellow well up in the nice points of his delicate trade--and I have
understood.
For two years I have avoided Mr. Van Vechten's annual volume ("Music
After the Great War" was published in 1915 and "Music and Bad Manners"
in 1916) for no more worthy reason than a convinced aversion for books
on music; their tangled sobriety seems such a poor guide to the joys of
the concert, the opera or the performer.
Wholly by chance, fortunate accident, I flipped open his latest,
"Interpreters and Interpretations," and this is what greeted my
astonished gaze:
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