Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually, however, he made it. He played his horn in Paris nightclubs, joined the first jazz band ever to play in Ger. many (their audiences included brass hats in the Army of Occupation at Coblenz). Back in Paris, Hiler was manager, host, musician and barman at the famed Jockey, Left Bank hot spot owned by Jockey Milton Henry's wealthy widow. One night in her cups Proprietress Henry ejected a Negro who proved to be a Senegalese prince and member of the Chamber of Deputies. Next day the Jockey was padlocked. Hiler reopened it, invited every Negro in Paris...
Died. Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff, 69, world-famed pianist and one of the half-dozen greatest composers of his generation; of pneumonia, pleurisy and complications; at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. A musician of aristocratic, old-world habits and conservative tastes, he wrote three operas, three symphonies, four piano concertos, countless oft-performed songs and piano pieces, was probably best known for his ubiquitous Prelude in C Sharp Minor (the "Flatbush" Prelude). Son of a captain in the Russian Imperial Guards, gaunt, towering Sergei Rachmaninoff was a close friend and protégé of the late great Peter Ilich...
...went a week without changing clothes. They ate in the soldiers' mess, watched the boys bid wads of francs for the privilege of escorting them to their tables. They performed in the rain, in halls lit only by torches; once, in a boxing ring. When they lacked a musician, a soldier rapped on a table to keep time for Mitzi's dance. Often under fire, the girls had to interrupt their show one night and lie in a slit trench with a company of soldiers. When the raid ended, they powdered their noses and went on with...
...charming, catchy music, written in a simple, direct, effective manner. If the applause of an enthusiastic audience has any positive correlation with the quality of the music, it can be regarded as a tremendous success. I hope that more will soon be forthcoming from so young and talented a musician...
...Station. His 19-year-old son, Jean Lawrence, studies medicine at Columbia University, his 17-year-old daughter, Annizella, takes a voice course at the Juilliard School of Music. Cook has found time to complete a course in short-story writing, also contributes a monthly column to the International Musician (official organ of the American Federation of Musicians) on jazz piano technique...