Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Prades was in its annual bloom, and admirers followed the proud, stubby figure of the 78-year-old Catalan exile through the town and crowded his little house. Said one peeved old Pradesan: "If Casals scratches, they have to scratch the same place." But the top-rank musicians who came to Prades were hardly less worshipful. "What does Prades mean to a musician?" said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin to a reporter who caught him strolling through town in shorts, with a bunch of daisies in his hand. "It means the chance to play with Casals. Why does [Pianist] Eugene...
Mood Indigo. In Sydney, Australia, a jury awarded Musician Frederick Benedict Mclntosh $22,500 damages after he complained that he had given up his radio work, following an auto accident, because he had lost his "cheerfulness...
Died. Georges Enesco, 73, Rumanian composer, conductor and violinist, who became his nation's leading musician, won worldwide acclaim for his Rumanian Rhapsodies; after long illness; in Paris. Enesco entered the Vienna Conservatory at seven despite a director's protest that it was "not a cradle," had had his compositions widely performed by the time he was a young man. He had lived in France for the last 50 years, recently turned down a bid to return to Red-controlled Rumania...
...marathons' comeback was apparently touched off a year ago when a Montreal TV station staged a charity telethon. That gave a Montreal pianist, Andre Mathieu, an idea; he staged a pianothon, played continuously for 21 hours, and was promptly challenged and outdone by another musician, who played six hours longer. A merchant in Shawinigan Falls (pop. 26,903) recalled the rocking-chair marathons of the '30s, and promoted a bercethon in his store window...
Interesting in his own right is Author Kubizek, who reveals more about himself than he intends. Trained as a musician, he wound up only as a small-town civil servant. Kubizek (now 66 and retired) is half irritating and half engaging in his stubborn insistence that, in the midst of a vast historical tragedy, he must remain loyal to the memory of a youthful friendship. He symbolizes the Little Man who goes on forever, while the Hitlers rise and fall. And he has at least enough moral sensivity to say: "For the question, then unknown and unexpressed, which hung above...