Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking over the orchestra directed by his rival, the Opera Nacional's Jascha Horenstein, Sir Thomas found evidence of his predecessor's influence in rehearsal. "You know what we do with a musician like him in England?" snapped Sir Thomas. "We clap him in the Tower!" By the time Sir Thomas was through, Mexico City's ornate marble Palacio de Bellas Artes resounded with some of the most warmly polished Mozart that Mexicans had ever heard. The audience at the opening night's Don Giovanni also approved Baritone John Brownlee's legs (the most beautiful...
...agitated for higher musician's pay. Down Beat usually contained something to interest every holder of a musician's union card...
...their workmanship. Most of them also pride themselves on a calm, philosophical attitude toward life. A tuner must be able to move smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with his tools. Working with intense concentration, he can rarely tune more than three or four pianos a day. Despite their calm...
Before casting the Perry band aside as just another unfortunate musical mistake, something should be said of their bassist, or rather their ex-bassist, Lloyd Trotman. A bassist of Trotman's calibre is a rare occurrence. He is both an excellent rhythm musician and a fine soloist. Men with technical command of their instruments are plentiful in comparison to those who possess both virtuosity and a taste for good jazz. Here is a man who does more than just "play the notes" and as a result deserves a place on anyone's list of "third world" musicians. But in spite...
George Frazier '33, was one of the first critics to "discover" this young man who despite the physical disability which confined him to a wheelchair, had a personality so magnetic as to draw one great musician after another on the 15 mile pilgrimage to the Vinal hozze in South Weymouth. On a home records waxings were made of Charley jammings with Josh White, Frank Newton, J. Jones, Basie, and the Crosby band to mention only a few. With one musical climax following another, the apex of Charley's career may be said to have occurred this past summer when, under...