Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Kennedy filled in the gaps. On trial were Herman Lang, accused of selling details of the design of the bombsight, shadowy Frederick Joubert Duquesne, blond Axel Wheeler-Hill, brother of Bundster James Wheeler-Hill, as well as a baker, a shipping clerk, a book salesman, a photographer, a musician, a seaman, a machinist...
Although Dvorak accepted honors from Emperor Franz Josef (he was the first musician to sit in the window-dressy Austrian House of Lords), he kept his Czechishness. A family man whose only hobby seems to have been looking at ships and locomotives, Dvorak spent three years in the U.S. in the 1890s, made $15,000 a year as head of Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music, but was homesick. The composer's happiest months were spent vacationing in the Czech village of Spillville, Iowa, where he played the organ in church...
Formed iff 1925 by an expatriated Viennese musician named Alexander Lippay, the Manila Symphony at first had hard sledding, often played to audiences of fewer than 100 people. But by the time Pioneer Lippay died in 1939, it was playing to full houses of 2,000, and Lippay's Filipino symphonists all had regular contracts. Today, playing in the Manila Symphony is a full-time job, pays from pesos 30 ($15) to pesos 150 ($75) a month (as much as the starting salary of a government employe). Key men like four-feet-six Concertmaster Ernesto Vallejo have studied...
...only purpose in writing this is to give Brunies the recognition he so rightly deserves, as this musician is held in high esteem by critics, musicians and hot jazz collectors the world over...
...Money paid over in the dark, i.e., below union scale. A musician who habitually plays below scale is called "Joe Below...