saxophone craze in the '20s, but Wiedoeft, a man who could simultaneously play virtuoso saxophone and do cowboy rope tricks on stage, died forgotten. In a late poem, [Vachel] Lindsay writes if not directly of Wiedoeft then certainly of the music he created, and in so doing condemns the very milieu--"none but an assassin would enjoy this horn"--that for a while made Vachel Lindsay a cultural phenomenon.from Slate: The Mystery of Vachel Lindsay
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