Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...riots in the early 1920s. By 1928, the Aivaz family was in New Britain, Conn., flat broke. There were seven youngsters to feed by then, so Jonathan never finished high school. He worked his way across the country as a movie pressagent, wound up with a small "chitchat and music" program on a Seattle radio station, and a new name-no one could pronounce...
...intimacy of her parlor, the frail old woman in the gold ballet slippers and purple kimono played some of Mozart's loveliest and most deceptively simple music (Sonatas K. 282, 283, 311, 333, Rondo in A Minor, K. 511, Country Dances, K. 606) as RCA Victor engineers recorded her art, sometimes for five hours at a stretch. By now, her fingers were gnarled and clawlike; yet her articulation was so sure, her tone never more pure. After a year of daily sessions, her recordings won cheers as one of the most important contributions to the interpretation of Mozart (TIME...
Died. Wanda Landowska, 80, genius of the harpsichord; in Lakeville, Conn, (see Music...
...Like his famous brother and sister, Osbert and Edith, he is at least Edwardian in his attitudes, positively baroque in his tastes. His famous travel books and his less famous poetry exude a distaste for contemporary living, and few writers can bolster their eccentricities with a wider knowledge of music, books and architecture. Now, with 61 years and as many books behind him", he moves into an area where he is about as much at home as a caveman with a shelf full of Sitwelliana. Journey to the Ends of Time (a second volume to come) is a long, discursive...
From the cockney and king's English of My Fair Lady, past the pure Iowa corn of The Music Man to the pidgin of Flower Drum Song, the best of the musicals make a cosmopolitan chorus. Redhead sings along only because Gwen Verdon calls the tune...