Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domo of the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. He is one of the guiding spirits of Pianist Rudolf Serkin's Marlboro Festival in Vermont. An indefatigable organizer of concerts, he has created such benign features of New York City musical life as the free outdoor performances in Greenwich Village and the offbeat chamber series at Manhattan's New School. A restless exponent of widening the repertory, he once formed a Schneider String Quartet expressly to perform all 83 of Haydn's quartets. He has been musical godfather to numerous younger musicians, among them Pianist Peter Serkin...
Apparently he did, for soon he was sitting in with top jazzmen in Greenwich Village. He was only 18 when Benny Goodman offered him a job in 1941. Powell says: "I did him the courtesy of accepting." Goodman remembers it a little differently: "He auditioned for me in a cubicle at my manager's office. He was so scared that I had to ask a secretary to help me decide whether he was any good-I couldn't tell." Anyway, that is the way that most people who know his name remember Powell-as a vital, imaginative soloist...
...theater is a garage near Greenwich Village. The playing floor is wall-to-wall carpeting, across which an occasional cockroach wends its nimble way. Wandering around the room or lying on the floor, the cast chants with deliberate monotony: "May I take you to your seat, sir? May I take you to your seat, sir?" But no one ever does...
...heads Massachusetts' Committee of Religious Concern for Peace. "We are not harboring them against the law. What we are doing is setting up a platform where their ethical and moral convictions can be made public." Adds the Rev. A. Finley Schaef, a hip-talking Methodist pastor in Greenwich Village: "This is a conscience thing, and that is what the church is concerned about, the conscience...
...Stevens, 20, an impulsive senior at fashionable all-girl Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., had a comfortable up bringing in affluent Greenwich, Conn. She attended Rosemary Hall, an expensive private girls' school, enjoyed the social life at The Belle Haven Club, to which her father, the president of a local radio station, belongs. But, she says, "I never realized how prejudiced I was. In Greenwich the blacks are all maids or something similar, and you don't have to think about them because you've put them in a category." Like many in the Class of '68, she has since...