Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Dudley White, summoned to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Munoz Marin, were optimistic about recovery, hoped that with complete rest he might even be able to play and conduct again in the future. But Casals' friends sadly faced the likelihood that his 'active career as a musician was over...
...unwanted metronome, insistent and offbeat, stalked off the stage, announcing: "That noise disturbs me. I cannot play with that competition!" His offending accompanist: a cricket that had taken up lodging in a nearby potted palm. After a five-minute search, workmen located the chirper, removed it so that Musician Stern, who had been mopping his brow backstage, could again return as solo soloist...
Another musical apostle. Jesuit Father Aimeé Duval, 38, was drawing the teenagers into Paris' Palais des Sports last week for a session of singing and guitar strumming. With permission from his superiors, Father Duval started out six years ago as a street musician, quickly became a provincial bistro favorite as a singer of folk songs, Negro spirituals (among which he includes "Me voilàa, me voilaà, old vieux Joe") and religious songs of his own composition. His record of Seigneur, Mon Ami-which might be translated roughly as "Somebody up there likes me"-sold...
Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar...
...strings, 13 "sympathetic" resonating strings, and two gourds which serve as sound box and resonator. Indian music is based on melodic forms known as ragas. Neither scales nor modes, ragas are separate, individual series of notes-there are thousands of different ragas-most of them passed orally from one musician to another. In combination with the drummer's rhythm, a raga gives the starting theme of a composition. The sitar player can improvise as long as he does not use notes other than those included in the basic raga. Each raga expresses an individual mood, e.g., tranquillity, loneliness, love...