Huneker

[ huhn-i-ker ]

noun

1. James (Gib·bons) [gib, -, uh, nz], 1860–1921, U.S. music critic and writer.

Example Sentences

James Huneker, reviewing the first performance of the symphony, identified the ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' theme in the first movement, describing it as ‘negro or oriental, just as you choose’.

From Literature

It was around this time that the cultural critic James G. Huneker would write: “All Coney Island reminded me of a disturbed ant-heap, the human ants ferocious in their efforts.”

From New York Times

The anarchic image, in which a swarming multitude falls back from the camera almost out of sight, summons both Coney’s assimilative energies and the tumultuous disorder of Huneker’s human ants.

From New York Times

“Why,” the critic James Huneker asked in 1915, “after the hot, narrow, noisy, dirty streets of the city, do these same people crowd into the narrower, hotter, noisier, dirtier, wooden alleys of Coney?”

From New York Times

Mr. Huneker is, in the best sense, a critic; he listens to the music and gives you his impressions as rapidly and in as few words as possible; or he sketches the composers in fine, broad, sweeping strokes with a magnificent disregard for unimportant details.

From Project Gutenberg