Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday night's concert was the most uniformly excellent event of the Festival. It began with the American debut of a fine French pianist, Martial Solal. Solal showed that a solid classical background can be a great asset to a jazz musician. Harmonically, he is strongly influenced by modern European classical music. Otherwise, his main influence seems to be Bud Powell, who now lives in France. Solal avoids the "funky" cliches of jazz piano, but preserves a real jazz feeling. Working out his ideas with both hands, embellishing his phrases with trills, he created some wonderfully elegant improvisations...
...brought her by now to the highest level of her profession. The most recent evidence was her 4½-hour performance in the Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, which closed a successful run last week. In it, she stood out against the fading background of a dated play, skillfully aging from a neurotic 20-year-old through a ripe and experimental maturity into a waspish old age surrounded by three men she has caught and caged...
...cover of your June 21 issue you show a very good picture of just how the Government is run. The only thing that was left out was the marbles the two in the background are playing with...
Ochs had no sons, and when he died in 1935 it was only natural that his daughter Iphigene's husband should inherit command. Arthur Hays Sulzberger presided over the institution with a steady hand, nudged its editorial stance toward more depth in news coverage, more interpretation and background on the events shaping the age. When Sulzberger retired from active control in 1961, he and his wife picked Daughter Marian Dryfoos' husband Orvil to run the show. After Dryfoos died in May, Sulzberger had to choose his successor again. And last week he picked his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger...
...Diamond, and his favorite Apartmentmates, Jack Lemmon and Shirley, Wilder has turned the Paris-London-Broadway musical show of several years ago into a raffishly sophisticated screen comedy that makes streetwalking seem almost as wholesome as the 50-mile hike. The score has been reduced to background music, and Wilder has wisely done away with all of the original verr-ee French accents. But he has added an ingredient that was perhaps mercifully lacking on the stage: where the theater's Irma was the only girl on view, the screen now swings with poules on parade-Kiki the Cossack...