Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with words of praise for "after" in today's Spain. Infuriated composers were only too happy to plunge the matter headlong into politics. Even blind Maestro Joaquin Rodrigo, the only Falangist composer esteemed by Argenta, wrote: "Argenta is definitely wrong. A good Spaniard has the duty as a musician and comrade to keep faith in the music of his country...
Ralph Kirkpatrick is a whole musician for having wrestled seriously with diverse apsects of his field. The ideal of the whole musician--composer, performer, teacher--was prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. Kirkpatrick's special field of interest, and indeed was superbly exemplified by Domeniico Scarlatti, the subject of Mr. Kirkpatrick's biography. The altered social role of the musician today, and specialization within music have made adherence to such an ideal the exception rather than the rule (the late Arthur Schnable is said to have consciously and zealously striven toward it). As far as I know...
...first level rendering of the author's genuine concern with Identity. The people on the stage are trying to identify themselves, but it is a sense of identity to which biological parentage is more or less irrelevant. When the movies want to convince their audience that a great musician is performing, they typically provide a close-up shot of swiftly flying fingers. The manifest problem of parentage bears the same relation to Eliot's concern with psychological or religious identity that agile fingers have to great musical ability. It is kind of mass symbol for the real thing. As members...
...chance "to sniff the air, feel around," for he will be bringing the 100-man Concertgebouw Orchestra to the U.S. next fall for a 42-concert tour. Van Beinum is eager to get started, and hopes that his men will learn to enjoy barnstorming. "In Amsterdam," he explains, "the musician who lives farthest from the hall is just 15 minutes away on a bicycle. Once every three weeks we go to The Hague for a concert -a 43-minute trip." And he laughs: "The next day, the orchestra is very tired...
There are two confidential clerks in the employ of Sir Claude Mulhammer, one an old, pure soul, about to retire. The other, Colby Simpkins, is a frustrated musician, whom Sir Claude believes to be his illegitimate son. Simpkins feels that his music exits in an unreal world as long as Sir Claude is his father; his life belongs in finance, with his parent. Yet, strangely enough, finance also seems like fantasy to him, and for a while, he feels that every man is given one vocation from his parents and one from God alone. In the final act, as Simpkins...