Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Line. At 38, Bernstein must tell himself that his talents have so far produced great excitement but no great works. He has leaped and dived and didoed like a scintillating porpoise in the mainstream of musical life, without having changed its course. Neither has any other contemporary musician of his age?but Bernstein insists that he must follow "that central line." as he once called it, "the line of mystery and fire" that, as he believes, is followed by all truly dedicated artists...
...death closed not only a career but an era. Gone was the last human link with the great Italian romantics, a man who had learned Verdi's last great works from Verdi himself. The world knows no musician to fill his place...
...origins were simple-his father was a poor Parma tailor-but his genius was plain in childhood. He never wanted to be anything but a musician, and he never was. He was often open and fun-loving among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history...
...play Didi starts a discussion of the Gospels. He introduces quite a bit of philosophizing; he sings a ballad and a lullaby; and he has ministered to Gogo spiritually and materially for 50 years, and repeatedly makes medical allusions and diagnoses. Now what person fills the bill--theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, and compassionate servant of the less fortunate for half a century? Albert Schweitzer. If you think this far-fetched, I call your attention to the fact that Godot's boy messenger, on both his entrances, addresses Didi as "Mister Albert." This play has inexhaustible riches for all who will...
...course it's obvious why Kerr gave Candide such an all-out panning," a musician in the Broadway show's orchestra told a friend last week. "He's a Catholic and the book's on the Index...