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Show Tempo of American Life Is Told In Our Dance Tunes ' ' - . CA.BEEB. AND - tm --; -i.wsai i jiff I ' JST "THE- "f-IN ISM Juit arm.irwiHi an arm-fll aj A heart full e lof a skj jtli Iff Famous Orchestra Leader Finds We Express Ourselves Our-selves in Our Music New York City. "Music, more than any other expression, reveals the tempo of the people. No wonder won-der the music of America is more barbaric, vital and far-flung than any the world has known before," says Eay O'Hara, famous musical conductor at the Governor Clinton Hotel. "Our music is really the melting pot of all human emotion, since every civilized nation has contributed contrib-uted its bit to the thing called jazz. But the speed at which our machines run is the tempo to which the world dances." It is true, as Mr. O'Hara points out, that most of our musicians are men who have sampled this tempo and lived as part of the great mechanical me-chanical age. Paul Whiteman op- erated a taxi and it is probably this experience, more than any other, that gave him the understanding under-standing of the American public's tastes, and another well-known leader was once a stoker on a great ocean liner. Ray O'Hara himself was an automobile salesman and mechanic before he took to music. "Lyrics as well as music are now typically American," says Ray O'Hara "America's picturesque language is reflected in its lyrics. We have a very pictorial manner of saying commonplaces and our popular songs more than any other medium are responsible for this. " 'An Armchair With an Armful of You,' a fox trot ballad that I get many calls for nightly, has a marvelous dance tune but its cute lyric is what makes it in demand. 'An Armchair With an Armful of You' calls up a pleasant picture to most of us and with good musi that picture looks grand." |