Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concluded 63-year-old Wilhelm Furtwängler: "Tonality is the last, sweetest flower of European culture ... As a musician, I remain a partisan of tonality...
...interested in any phase of production have been asked to indicate their preferences at the Pudding's Holyoke Street office any afternoon between Monday and Friday, from 2 to 5 p.m., until April 30. The Pudding reserves the right to shuffle writer and musician teams. Casting will start around November 1. Membership in the Pudding is not a prerequisite for trying...
When asked for biographical details, Irving Fine replies, "I've been at Harvard for a long time." But there is more to his story than that. Teacher, composer, conductor, performer, and critic, Fine is a complete musician...
Professional critics have been accustomed to refer to Irving Fine as "a man of promise." His most recent compositions and his varied activities in the University, however, have shown that he is already an all-around musician of highest standing in America. By his music he will be known in the future. An advanced student at Tanglewood last summer commented after hearing one of his works, "I should like to congratulate Mr. Fine for expressing all he has to say through his music...
Sounds Corny. Neither of Peter's Italian-born parents was a musician, but for their home in Erie, Pa. they bought a phonograph and taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including...