Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really surprising that he had continued his fruitless efforts as long as he had, except that he was an Englishman, an artist, an idealist. Never able to respect the academic or conventional mind, he left Oxford before he had finished. Aged 19, he toured England with the Kelson Truman Opera Company, wrote three operas himself. In a few years he turned to symphony work, presenting highly unorthodox programs which were marked with deep musical scholarship as well as youth's impetuous revolt. Calm, neat, leisurely, absentminded, he lavished ?100,000 ($486,000) on his first season of opera...
...write? Some of the poet's letters show clearly that he believed in reticence where his deepest feelings were involved, that one's heart was not to be worn upon one's sleeve. This may have been a defect in his nature, and a serious deficiency in an artist, but certainly it invalidates an attempt to discover from what he set down in black and white all that he was in his most secret heart...
...grants that a violinist is more than a fiddler, that an artist ranks above a painter of pictures, that a poet is superior to a rhymer, but these distinctions are based on certain gradations of value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics...
...mention university, in this country which supports a drum with such a drummer as appeared between the halves and the goal posts last Saturday. Before Gilbert Seldes and the other higher aesthetes get a chance I wish to have it definitely stated that that drummer is a great artist. Like a moth ball in a derby he was the only bright spot of my afternoon. May he live to beat many drums...
Just how the life of this young artist ended is not known with any exactness. Rumor at the time had it that he was poisoned by jealous rivals in art but whether this is a fact or not still remains a mystery which will probably never be surely solved...