Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orleans youth was in the grip of something called Voutian, a way of life given to the world by a jazz musician named Slim Gaillard. Its practitioners called themselves Vouts (pronounced Vowts), prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks...
...took a good musician and a good electronics man to improve on the oboe's A. Just such a combination is Norman Pickering of Oceanside, Long Island, whose main business is manufacturing electric pickups for record-players. As a musician, Pickering has played the French horn in leading orchestras...
Holy Terror. Artur Rodzinski is a professional, in the strongest sense of the word: he is a professed musician. He regards music as his calling, and himself as consecrated to it. His devotion to his calling is selfless-though his selflessness is sometimes as hard to take as another man's selfishness...
...Every musician who remained in Germany or occupied Europe to perform there must face before all other charges that of being a leader, looked up to by his listeners, a leader who proved unworthy of the esteem placed in him. To overlook the past records of such men simply because one likes to hear their music is unforgivable...
...musician's musician, Roger Sessions looks like a swarthy, extremely precocious baby; he is probably the most difficult of U.S. composers. His 12-year-old violin concerto bogged down all but one of the many violinists who tackled it. His orchestral works are as elaborately scored as those of Hector Berlioz, but, unlike Berlioz, Sessions seldom repeats themes to give listeners something to cling to. The new symphony's unmuted brasses were as noisy as Shostakovich's, and some passages reminded hearers of the atonalist music of Hindemith and Schonberg. Sessions, however, believes that he is closer...