Elbows

In Manhattan was presented an ultra-aesthetic piano recital by one Henry ("Elbows") Cowell.

This revolutionary youth is the exponent of a brand of modernism in music which deals a great deal with "tone clusters." A "tone cluster" is a group of adjacent notes played simultaneously. Obviously the elbow is an excellent implement with which to strike several inches of the keyboard. Hence, after fingering along for a while in a more or less normal fashion, the novel pianist achieves a note cluster high or low by deftly coming down with an elbow.

Cowell has written much music of the "tone cluster" sort. Most of it is moderately incomprehensible, but there is a certain mood in the "tone cluster."