Word: impresario
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...years as a composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says Impresario Lincoln Kirstein: "He heard first for us all. Sounds he has found or invented, however strange or forbidding at the outset, have become domesticated in our ears...
...more than $100,000. Yet he is still barely aware of the scope of his success, hardly knows what he is scheduled to do next or what he will receive for it, gets $25 a week in pocket money from his shrewd managers, his mother and a Hollywood hillbilly impresario named Cliffie Stone...
...Impresario Hoffnung hopes soon to introduce his music to the U.S. live, by staging a similar production in Manhattan. Meanwhile, his record remains the funniest musical joke in years. "A breath of fresh air," said one London critic. "I admired particularly the coloratura attack and secure intonation," said another, speaking of a vacuum-cleaner player...
...Impresario-Composer Marcel Landowski* has turned the trick largely by carrying a big opera orchestra (the excellent ensemble of Paris' Société des Concerts du Conservatoire) around with him on a tape machine...
Currently, Impresario Landowski is planning to expand his company's repertory (possibly including a new opera by Composer Landowski), expects to tour in Canada next year. Says one French paper: "This is how opera can regain its public...