Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago the title of "world's most famous musician" belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski. Flame-haired Virtuoso Paderewski was the greatest pianist of his time and one of its most lionized personalities. Women swooned at his concerts, pursued him to beg a lock of his long red-gold hair. Kings and cabbageheads applauded him. Even among people who never went near a concert hall "Paderoosky" was a name to conjure with...
This week, Clara Gabrilowitsch, who has already published an undistinguished biography of her illustrious father,* publishes an intimate biography of her famous husband. † Anecdotal, chatty, her book, naturally uncritical, tells more about Mr. & Mrs. Gabrilowitsch than it does about Gabrilowitsch the musician. An ardent Christian Scientist (although her father was noted for his early attacks on Christian Science), Clara Gabrilowitsch interprets the events of her husband's life piously, describes how she several times brought him through crises of body and mind by the power of faith...
...swing-crazy world has come a small book called "Young Man With a Horn", by Dorothy Baker which rather unconsciously contains about the finest description of swing music that could be put into words. It is a short novel, inspired by the playing of an excellent musician in a jazz orchestra who died several years ago, and it merely tells the story of Rick Martin, who found in swing an outlet for artistic expression but at the same time a destructive medium which he could not fit to his life...
Last week the Philharmonic-Symphony directors announced the result of their second annual competition. Again the prize went to an Evanston musician: a strapping, blond-whiskered composer named David Van Vactor. A sole honor able mention in the same competition went to Composer Mark Wessel, onetime stu dent and teacher of composition at Evanston's Northwestern University...
Composer Van Vactor, whose Symphony in D won the prize, became a musician by accident because he happened to inherit a flute from an uncle. The village barber of Plymouth, Ind., where his family then lived, taught him how to play it. Soon Flutist Van Vactor was well along on a flute-playing career that wound up in the ranks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, he studied composition with Composer Wessel at North western University, later in Europe. His prize-winning symphony, which will be performed this winter in Manhattan, he describes as "absolute, dissonant, and, I hope, pleasant...