Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bound for Stuttgart airport on a fog-shrouded Autobahn, a bus carrying Germany's Pianist Walter Gieseking, 60, crashed into a bridge abutment at 70 m.p.h., brought death to two of its 18 passengers. One of the dead: Gieseking's wife Anna Maria, 66. Famed Musician Gieseking, removed from Allied blacklists in 1946 after his eleven years as an unreluctant performer under Hitler, sustained "serious" head injuries but no hurt to the hands that have made him famous...
Penning a New York Times piece to help mark the celebration of Mozart Year, famed Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 52, gave readers an unwitting hint of when old age sets in for child prodigies: "Love and understanding for Mozart came rather late in my life as a musician. Mozart's music didn't mean much to me until I was about 13 or 14 years...
...absorbs popular and semi-classical music. This, too, is the main theory behind tape recording in a nightclub or a symphony hall. The jazz artist supposedly emits a personal feeling with his playing; this is picked up by the enthusiastic audience which sends back its own feeling to the musician who, thus encouraged, will perform better...
Eliot House piano stylist Joseph G. Raposo '58 was heralded as "a great musician" by Boston disc jockey Sidney Toren in an interview last night, Known in music circles as "Symphony Sid" and a fly hipster (expert) on the "cool" school of jazz, Toren was equally lavish with praise for Raposo's quartet and its saxophonist, John C. M. Brust...
...Smiley. Ed stays away from his show until Sunday afternoon when the first camera rehearsal begins. The physical production of The Ed Sullivan Show is in the hands of Co-Producer Mario Lewis, Director-Choreographer Johnny Wray and Musician Ray Bloch, who have been at work since the previous Monday. Ed comes onstage to a burst of applause from the audience of 500 crowded into the balcony (because of the demand for tickets, Ed's is one of the few shows that admits an audience to rehearsals; they must leave the theater later to make way for a completely...