Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urbane Randall Thompson looks like neither a musician nor a teacher, but is both. Now at the University of Virginia, he has also taught at Wellesley and University of California, was director of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute until he disagreed with the board of directors last year. Best known for his Symphony No. 2, he has also composed choral works, incidental music for the theater, but no previous opera. For the past ten years all his composing has been on commission. Ignoring the many composers who work on hope and faith, he says: "A musician is like an architect...
...liked him so well that he was called back for a return engagement the same month-a thing the Boston Symphony never does. Fortnight ago he likewise reappeared, for the second time this season, with Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony. Concertgoers could not remember when, if ever, a musician had gotten return engagements within the same season by two major U.S. orchestras...
...Bach's clavier works in twelve recitals; he has also given complete Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert cycles. To preserve his vitality, he keeps to the Hay diet (separating starches and proteins), eats fruit like a jungle dweller, does Yoga exercises, sleeps ten hours a night. Says he: "A musician owes it to his audiences not to have off days...
...special award went to Conductor Leopold Stokowski, for "the creation of a new form of visualized music" in Walt Disney's Fantasia, and it highlighted both the growing influence of Hollywood as a music capital and Hollywood's increasing dependence on music. Other musician winners...
...sensitive guitar strummings and down to earth blues singing by Joshua White. Josh White accompanied Libby Hofman, who learned to sing the blues from him, over at the Balinese Room of the Somerset this past week. He has produced three fine albums, devoted especially to his songs, but a musician of his accomplishments is just another Negro to the innkeepers of Commonwealth Avenue. Of the leading local hotels, only the Ritz would let him sign the register, and they informed him there that the management would not be responsible for any observations the guests might pass in the elevator. Josh...