Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike many modernist composers, 42-year-old Hindemith has had wide experience as a practical musician, is a virtuoso on the viola. After running away from home at the age of eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
Mlle. Boulanger, an outstanding musician, has come from abroad principally to give courses in Cambridge; and yet with a few exceptions no Harvard students are able to audit or enroll in any of her courses. This is indeed an unfortunate restriction on men with musical interests who are thus deprived of some of the best musical instruction and criticism in the world...
...This Goodman is an interesting musician, isn't he?' said the professor, who was keeping time by stamping his feet on the floor. . . . 'Feed it out!' someone screamed as Gene Krupa, the drummer, began to knock the hell out of a set of cymbals. . . . 'Very interesting!' said the professor. 'The whole thing is explained in Allport's Social Psychology, chapters ten, eleven and twelve...
...that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...
Difficult to pigeonhole as a musician, Enesco is equally difficult to pigeonhole in the various jobs at which he works. In spite of an absorbing interest in contemporary modernistic scores, he shines brightest as a conductor of romantic German symphonies. As a composer he cannot be identified with any school. "People have been puzzled and annoyed," said good-natured, courtly Enesco in an interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy...