Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glenn Gould; Columbia). Young triple-threat (composer, conductor, pianist) Musician Gould again displays his phenomenal ability to make the piano talk. He indulges his youthful exuberance, which results in some spectacular speed but also-at least in this late Beethoven-gives the impression of skimming the surface...
TIME'S music staff is to be congratulated for fine stories on two comparatively unknown yet great musicians: Gesualdo, long dead and almost forgotten except by a handful of music lovers, and Don Elliott, long a musician's musician, whose star is just beginning to rise...
...Karajan is lord of a unique musical empire: he controls the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna State Opera, directs the major recordings of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, performs major assignments at Milan's La Scala Opera. At 48 he is the most powerful musician in Europe, perhaps in the world...
...Concerto for Left Hand, two works by Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten's Diversions on a Theme. Wittgenstein (now 68 and a teacher in Manhattan) also commissioned-but never understood or played-the Prokofiev concerto that was premièred last week by Siegfried Rapp, a musician with a story similar...
...play very good," fans would quip, "but he has a lousy tone." In today's overcrowded jungle, one young musician is beginning to emerge because he is lousy with versatility...