Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, what jazz and classical music need are mediators who can boast impeccable credentials in both camps. Gunther Schuller is such a man. A composer, conductor, and president of Boston's New England Conservatory of Music, he is also a seasoned jazz composer, critic, lecturer and performer (French horn). Now he has put his combined backgrounds to work brilliantly in a new book, Early Jazz (Oxford; $9.75). The first of a projected two-volume musical history, the book is nothing less than the definitive guide to jazz for the classical-music...
...much for amateurs. That is what the experts figured when the overlords of international tennis gave their blessing to open competition between amateurs and pros. No amateur, they said, could hope to beat the older, more experienced pros. Last week, in the British Hard Court Championships at Bournemouth, England-the world's first open tournament-an obscure British amateur proved that the talent gap may not be so big after all. On successive afternoons, Mark Cox, 24, who was not even considered good enough to play singles for the British Davis Cup team, upset two of the game...
...Merlyn and the rest-and re-created it all in a new form, part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic. As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England. He was born in India in 1906. His mother, who married reluctantly and late, regarded sex and White's father with total revulsion and her only child with a flouncing petulance that lasted through her long life. Constance White did a thorough job of squelching her child...
...whenever it was," written as if remembered. It was without much question the best book for a twelve-year-old ever written, and a haunting delight for readers of any age. Besides unfolding the entire panoply of medieval life, it was a book of profound patriotic piety, distilling England's future greatness-and its humor as well...
...more disturbing level, however, it is difficult to accept the fact of Disney's death because it was difficult to accept the facts of his life. Even his surname, said to have been traced to a Burgundian soldier named De Disney who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention. To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed. His meticulously cultivated public image remains that of the sort of magician often hired to entertain at children's birthday parties-a milk...