Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most gifted of the Mexicans shown in Manhattan. His masterful painting of a surf-wearied swimmer got some of the ebb and crash of its title, The Sea. Meza took up painting because he did not have enough money for music lessons. He wanted to be a strolling musician; now he paints twelve hours...
When Mérida was ten years old, he decided to be a musician. For six years he worked hard at piano, musical theory and composition, but an ear infection made him too deaf to go on with it. At 17, he went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed...
...down-at-heel bistro on the French Riviera one night in August 1944, a pianist lazily fingered a nostalgic ballad from a crudely cleffed manuscript. Some G.I.s at the bar asked to hear it again. The musician played it once more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...
...Richardson would be with a better outlook on life. . . . A little kindness, a little thoughtfulness would do wonders in bringing back the glow of joy. Jesus cared for humanity, cared for human souls and even those who did not care for themselves. Long ago Plato said that a real musician makes harmony not merely with his harp but with his life-his life goes into his song...
...Chronicles of Stephen Foster's Family (University of Pittsburgh Press; 2 vols., $5), Stephen's niece, Evelyn Foster Morneweck, presents a corrected portrait-of a musician who loved his wife & child, paid his taxes, and wrote a temperance song called Comrades, Fill No Glass...