Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 80 years Russian music had been strongly influenced by "The Five"- César Cui, an engineer; Modest Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov), a government clerk and famed tosspot; Alexander Borodin (Prince Igor), a doctor; Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov, a naval officer; Mily Balakirev, a professional musician. In opposition to the international style of Tchaikovsky, "The Five" believed that the source of Russian music should be Russian-folk songs and church music. Igor Stravinsky (Petrouchka, The Fire Bird) continued this nationalist tradition, though he later abandoned it for severe and arid abstractions...
When a meal is in full swing, the cafeteria style dining room contains a very diversified group. A graduate musician peels potatoes, a chemistry fellow deals out vegetables, and a biology section man scoops out the ice cream...
...Committees. The mass robbery to which inexperienced undergraduate contact men have been ever subjected by unscrupulous agents has had much to do with the one thousand dollar deficit caused by the spring dances. A centralized, experienced board, working through agents known to be reliable or dealing directly with the Musician's Union is the logical answer to a difficult situation...
...their slipshod playing, their lack of rehearsals, he bowed to an ambition-to bring orchestral nuances to band music. At the first rehearsal of Goldman's own band, the players found their parts a mass of hen tracks in red ink, detailed instructions for phrasing, etc. Said one musician: "This is just like a kindergarten." But one rehearsal converted them. The Goldman Band developed into a precision instrument...
Died. Arthur Pryor, 71, veteran bandmaster, once-famed trombonist, composer of some 300 marches, operettas, "novelties" (The Whistler & His Dog, Jingaboo, On Jersey Shore); of a stroke; in West Long Branch, N.J. A boy musician, he played an estimated 10,000 solos with Sousa's Band, took over his late father's band, became Sousa's closest competitor...