Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will perish." Asked if he thought his national leaders were asleep at the switch, Jersey City N.A.A.C.P. President Raymond Brown snapped: "Hell, they don't even know where the switch is." Some Negroes furiously turned to such Negro nationalist groups as the Black Muslims, whose New York leader, Malcolm X, tells whites: "The N.A.A.C.P. is a white man's concept of a black man's organization. Don't let any of those black integrationists fool you. What
Astonishing Lesson. For his 300 students, Leinsdorf mixed wit, energy and a towering musical intelligence to give them a vigorous summer of learning. He brought in soloists such as Pianists Lorin Hollander and Malcolm Frager to talk with his students, and even induced Eugene Ormandy to conduct the Tanglewood student orchestra. Taking a place in the orchestra himself, he was unsparing with the large batch of student conductors who turned up this year. Stopping the young conductors in mid-beat, he would say, "Why didn't the orchestra play for you there? Are you taking the orchestra...
...Pianists Malcolm Frager and Vladimir Ashkenazy have been fast friends ever since 1958, when Ashkenazy made his American debut. Frager was introduced as a magna cum laude Russian student at Columbia, and shy Ashkenazy greeted him like a deus ex machina friend...
...Variations, the Chopin Rondo for Two Pianos, and the fiendishly difficult Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Through ten days of rehearsals at the Moscow Conservatory, neither could do much but marvel at the other's playing. "I would like to play Mozart as well as Malcolm," Ashkenazy said, drawing a blush from Frager...
...Malcolm! What are you saying!" moaned Ashkenazy, drowning in embarrassment...