Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Says 57th Street Dealer Sidney Janis: "We've got something they don't have. The first thing the Europeans talk about is the vitality of the new art in America." Gallery Owner Rose Fried put it another way: "The French can cook up a better cuisine, but right now we've got the more vigorous stew...
...where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium's International Concours. Nowadays when the three are in Manhattan together, they reserve Steinway's basement on 57th Street every free evening and test new pianos ("We are always on the lookout for pianos that are good for Mozart and also Prokofiev") and play for one another until midnight. When one of the trio is playing well, there is nothing but the sound of the piano...
Although he calls many of his contemporaries who show their works "the frustrated Bob Hopes of 57th Street," Still rates high in abstract artists' circles. Art Critic Clement Greenberg calls him "the most original painter alive"; Manhattan's Modern Museum places him among the top four U.S. abstractionists...
...summers ago Perry Miller suggested that Madison Avenue be razed from 42nd to 57th Streets. This would eliminate most of the great advertising agencies, decimate the radio and television networks, and destroy the headquarters (at 44th Street) of the legendary Gray Flannel Suit...
...Brubeck, Erroll Garner and Ella Fitzgerald and a gaggle of other big-name jazz artists-as the fourth Newport (R.I.) Jazz Festival opened last week with the authority of an established institution. On opening night, there was a moist-eyed party in honor of Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's 57th birthday, which Louis ended on a sour note by blasting out The Star-Spangled Banner and stomping off stage when he found he could play only 13 numbers. Eartha Kitt undulated her way through a 15-minute dance history of jazz, to the music of Dizzy Gillespie's band...