Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes and fugues-two in each of the 24 keys-that constitute the musician's bible and byword: Bach's great Wohltemperirtes Clavier (Well-Tempered Clavier...
...will give two lectures on "Music--Its Function and Limitations" here early next December. He succeeds Howard Hanson, of the Eastman School of Music. Hanson took over the post after its establishment in 1948. Mrs. Bertha L. Elson donated the lecture series in honor of her husband, a Boston musician and critic...
...basic philosophy characterizing Munch's approach to the orchestra is that every musician is talented and a master of his instrument. Otherwise he would not be a member of the orchestra, Munch reasons. Consequently he seldom corrects individuals in rehearsals, and though he is careful of details, he does not pick out one particular player for picayune criticism. Only when he strongly disagrees with a man's particular interpretation will he stop a rehearsal to correct him. Thus, although he spends as much time in rehearsal as other conductors, less of this time is spent in repetition of short phrases...
Meanwhile, Miss Finn was turning up fresh leads of her own in New York City. She learned that Dennis' only sister, Nora, now married to a musician, was living in New York. But she did not know her married name. With the help of a single address at which Nora had once lived in Queens, a reverse telephone directory (which lists telephone numbers by addresses), and some luck, she got Nora on the phone. An hour later they were talking together...
Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...