Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more constructive direction, Bill also had half a hanker to be a musician, and in his spare time picked up a fair proficiency on two instruments-clarinet and piano-and a real professional sheen on two others-drums and bones. At almost everything his timing and coordination were exceptional-though, curiously he could never learn to dance very well-and they showed to brilliant effect whenever he was on a stage. In the sixth grade he played Rip Van Winkle in the school play, and made a hit with all the mothers. He decided he might like...
...years ago to the month that Artur Rubinstein first played in Carnegie Hall (a mere coincidence, he insists-"I hate anniversaries"). In that half century he has grown from a prodigy to a musical playboy to a great artist with the broadest popular following of any front-rank musician in the world. The compact dignity of his entrances, his ramrod back and frizzled grey crown, his highhanded hammering of the keyboard are known and loved wherever there are pianos...
...when she was 16, married her when she was 22 and he was 43. Within a year he was a father (of Eva, now an actress in the Broadway hit The Diary of Anne Frank), and the responsibility made a serious and disciplined musician out of him. "I didn't want people telling my child after I died, 'What a pianist your father might have been...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was small, rachitic, poor and struggling. His music was grand, architecturally superb, rich and blissful. The contrast between Mozart the man and Mozart the musician never ceases to amaze. Says Bruno Walter, one of Mozart's great musical interpreters: "His personality has remained strangely remote to the world...
Kissable Age. Father Leopold Mozart was a musician-a violinist and court composer to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Even so, he thought it precocious that "Wolferl" at the age of three should "bawl with disappointment" when his small fingers struck a discord on the clavier. At four, Wolferl scribbled down his first clavier concerto; at five, before he had had a single violin lesson, he played second fiddle in a trio. "One need not have learnt in order to play second fiddle," he informed the grownups...