Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filling in with impromptu remarks while waiting for a member who had forgotten his music, Mr. Holmes suggested the difficulty faced by an amateur orchestra in finding appropriate music for its programs. Works simple enough to be performed by the non-professional musician are quite apt to be unsatisfactory to the listener. Granting the validity of this problem, it is more to the credit of Mr. Holmes and his Orchestra that they were able to select a program which would please the audience while still falling within the technical limitations of the players...
Precision and dynamic control by the members of the Quartet was noticeable from the very beginning, and it never slackened. Throughout the entire concert, and especially in Hindemith's Quartet, they performed as one musician...
...intimately familiar with the great conductor's work. The National Broadcasting Company studios are just across the street from the TIME & LIFE building, and Thomas used to run over for Thursday afternoon rehearsals of Toscanini's NBC orchestra. There, in the control room, Thomas had a rare musician's-eye view of Toscanini at work and an unequaled chance to note his careful preparation, his humor, his likes and dislikes, and his perfectionist's way of evoking great music from his musicians...
...nine months of relevant and irrelevant wrangling, of sneering and shouting by defense attorneys, of contradictory testimony from Reds, ex-Reds, agents of the FBI, of high excitement and vast boredom came to an end then in an instant of dead hush. Pretty Mrs. Thelma Dial, wife of a musician, foreman of the jury, looked straight in front of her and said: "We find each and every one of the defendants guilty...
...monastic life of the Order came the Bead Game, a kind of synthesis of human learning, which, in its subtlety, resembled both the chess game of master players and the improvisation of great musicians. One player stated a theme, perhaps a thought of a great philosopher, or a phrase of some medieval musician; his opponent replied with a complementary phrase, or with one opposing it, or related to it, and the Game proceeded, with constantly deepening associations, with references more varied, subtle and ingenious. The greatest players became the leaders of the Order, and the greatest of all its central...