Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irving traveled through the West with two Europeans. Count Albert-Alexandre de Pourtalès, 19, had been sent away from Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks...
...will appear only once before leaving for a Carnegia Hall engagement. Though some of the Duke's former stars will not be on hand, his presence at the piano will be a notable occasion. Among his other claims to fame is the fact that he was the first popular musician ever to appear in Paine Hall, the University's music center...
...Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
Hard Work. Haggin knows, however, what every musician knows: that the riches of music are only to be gotten by those with an appreciation of the whole tonal text: "A piece of music is, to begin with, an organization of sounds; experiencing it begins with hearing the sounds and the way they are related in each phrase, the relation of one phrase to the next in the progression; and learning to hear these relations is at the same time a process by which you learn to follow the grammar and logic of musical thought...
Composer Francis Poulenc, whose frothy, nose-thumbing ballet and cinema music had been the rage of the prewar Left Bank, was last week the most popular musician in Paris. His latest ballet score, Les Animaux Modeles (commissioned by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), had been prevented from delivery by the German occupation. But when the German authorities offered to produce it at the Paris Opera, Poulenc refused coldly, maintained an unimpeachable record of resistance...