Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free love--late and irregular hours--overwhelming conceit; all are closely associated with the average jazz musician by the general public. However, we who have known Charley Vinal can certainly point with pride to a man who was not only a credit to his profession but also an outstanding example of clean-living American youth...
Charley was a talented young musician of 17, playing saxophone with a local radio orchestra, when he contracted in fantile paralysis. Then followed a year in an iron lung and three more in bed. He switched from sax to clarinet, deriving his musical inspiration from an excellent recorded library by Tesch, Huntz Hall, Pee Wee, and others steeped in the musical traditions of the Mississippi delta...
...second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy played second fiddle so well that he was soon solo violinist of the original Roxy Gang. He graduated from gangdom when the Capitol's chief conductor fell ill on the eve of a performance. Ormandy, the only musician in the place who knew the Tchaikovsky score by heart, took over on 15 minutes' notice. It was the first time in his life that he had ever conducted...
...married to a musician (Violinist Julius Schachter), she has abandoned the piano, turned thumbs down on the movies ("There's more money in radio, and anyway, I'm waiting for television"). She gets along so well with Sinatra that when his crowding fans tore her dress recently, Sinatra called for a needle & thread, knelt down and sewed it up. "Did a very neat job, too," says Joan...
With extreme pleasure I was reading your article concerning Anton Bruckner (March 27). On the other side, Bruckner is considered as Beethoven's only equal in the symphonic field. Born in Vienna and a musician myself (in civilian life, of course), I fought for Anton Bruckner all my life and I was surprised to find, when I came to this country, that almost nobody had ever heard of him. In Austria and Germany Bruckner's name appeared on concert programs as often as Beethoven's and is familiar to everyone who appreciates good music. Bruno Walter made...