Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artistic success. Toscanini's friends knew that refusing to go to Bayreuth seemed to him almost like betraying Wagner, that in his distress over the whole situation he was past feeling such thrusts as the one last week published in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung: "The great musician, with incorruptible ears ever mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard out of the mighty orchestra that is Germany only the discordant tone." The National Socialist Militant League for German Culture said: "As Germans we are convinced that artistically adequate interpreters of the works of Wagner will...
Compared with these two, big, handsome Duke Ellington is an earnest, all-round musician. He learned to play the piano capably when he was growing up in Washington, D. C. At 16 he was playing with dance orchestras. In his early twenties he went to New York with a four-piece band of his own. Soon he was bettering the other Harlem jazzleaders by writing his own songs-'"Mood Indigo," "Lazy Rhap-sody," "Cotton Club Stomp," "Hot and Bothered." He has made his own arrangements of such straight tunes as "Limehouse Blues," "Three Little Words" and the Blackbirds score...
...late Ernest Torrence who died last fortnight after an operation for gallstones (TIME, May 22). He massacred Indians in The Covered Wagon, kidnapped children in Peter Pan and; as Professor Moriarity, almost did away with Sherlock Holmes. When he was a young man, Ernest Torrence planned to be a musician. He wrote the music for a play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly Scotch burr soon made him a popular, villain. His first cinema...
Proud Bull-Fiddler Brahms wanted his son to be a musician but such tribute as is being paid this year was far beyond the scope of his imagination. Music. Father Brahms hoped, would earn his son a living. He was set to playing the piano almost as soon as he could toddle. Before he reached his teens he could tootle on a horn, play passably on the violin and 'cello. But to his father's despair he would go on scribbling music when he should have been practicing his scales and learning the dance tunes which would earn...
...Manhattan last week arrived bristly haired, professional Violinist Adolf Busch bringing to the U. S. for the first time his famed Busch Quartet and his young protege Pianist Rudolf Serkin. Day before they landed came news that Busch, like many another German musician, had found Adolf Hitler's government more than he could stomach. Busch had been engaged for Brahms centennial concerts in Hamburg this month, but Pianist Serkin, a Jew, was not to be allowed to play. Violinist Busch withdrew...