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murky atmosphere, dastardly intrigues,
and Vista- Vision into the future. Get
this ( or perhaps I should say more
appropriately, List! ) -
"The craving to create music,
the light of his life, his dream,
his spur, the food and drink of
his inner self, had vanished.
Never again would he put notes
on paper! ( Within a few years he
was to turn out in quick succession
three operas which, today.
more than a century later. are
cornerstones of operatic repertories
ererywhere.)
Fin not kidding: Boy -Scout's oath,
that's what it says here ( on page 6,
if you insist on checking)!
Needless to add, before this Verdian
soap opera staggers to a fade -out some
300 pages later, Ybarra has long since
exhausted even his own copious supply
of superlatives and exclamation
points, and has to resort to wholesale
borrowings. If you can stomach such
bilge, I suppose it's one way of absorbing
the few, plain facts of Verdi's life
and work ( but watch out for heartburn!
). If you want those facts without
sugar coating and with infinitely
more genuine insight into the incomparable
music itself, run, don't walk,
to the nearest bookstore ( dropping
this volume in the handiest trashbasket
on your way ) to get Toyé s Verdi
( Knopf, 1946 ) or Hussey's shorter
biography in the "Master Musiciansseries
(Dent, 1948; via Pellegrini &
Cudahy).
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Grace Notes
Bibliography of Jazz. The first really
scholarly and comprehensive work of
its kind, this compilation by Alan P.
Merriam, assisted by Robert J. Ben -
ford, comprises 3,324 book and article
entries, a list of 113 jazz magazines,
and 17 pages of subject and periodical
indices (as compared with some 1,15o
entries and 82 magazines in Robert G.
Reisner's Literature of Jazz, issued in
paperback form last year by the New
York Public Library ). Nothing later
than 195o is catalogued here and there
are no annotations, either critical or
descriptive. Nevertheless, this is the
most impressive and useful approach
made so far to the ultimate, definitive
bibliography of jazz historians' dreams.
( American Folklore Society, S6.00 ).
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