Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This includes jazz music and, in particular, a jazz musician she once slept with in Paris-one Lee Marion, who wrote a song called Jehovah Blues ("The beat . . . was a slow dripping of blood") and then headed back to the U.S. Aldebaran spends the greater part of the book in pursuit of Musician Marion, who quite evidently does not want her blood guilt dripping on him. Aldebaran realizes this only after she and Author Steen have floundered through the swamplands of the U.S. color question...
...books, each divided into 20 parts, each part weighing 20 pounds, Haüytaught the boy the rudiments of reading. Though perpetually racked by his cough, Louis proved an able student. "This sad little dark boy," as Haüy called him, became both a teacher and an accomplished musician...
...Dempsey Punch. It was a difficult choice, the judges said, but they were pleased with the winner. Said Artur Rubinstein : "A deep musician. There is hope for a truly great pianist." Seconded Olin Downes: "He has the Dempsey punch...
...gasping superlatives. Said Le Figaro: "An extraordinary ensemble, playing with an assurance and ardor that bordered on fanaticism." L'Aurore's critic said, "Never before have we heard anything comparable to the sumptuous sonority of the strings and mordant quality of the trumpets." Said one Boston musician: "We did our best because we realized what it meant to Munch and Monteux to play in Paris...
Orchestra Builder. The Call-Bulletin tried to say something for the nonmusical man: "We'll leave all the fancy words about his greatness as a musician to the music critics and just say that he was an extraordinarily likable guy, and that San Francisco will miss him and Mme. Monteux very much." Lamented the Chronicle: "The end of an era in the cultural life of this community...