SYNCOPATING SAXOPHONES BY ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN CHICAGO, ROBERT O. BALLOU, 1925 To the memory of Joseph Schreurs for thirty years first clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, my first real teacher, and the man who opened my eyes to what music really is. INTRODUCTION IN THE beginning is the fact. After the fact come the theorists who explain that fact. The theory crystallizes into a law, and its exposi tors constitute themselves a court, demanding observance of that law. This is art. Meanwhile, there have come into being new facts. And they go over the process again, always well behind the fact and its application likewise there is the same insistence on the observance of the law. This, again, is art. Something is happening in music, said Alexander Russell, and the five w r ords mean much. This something 71 especially touches our Ameri can musical art. It is the spirit of today, of us. It is jazz. Who knows about it That man who is its high priest or its day laborer, as you...