Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instruments survived, and one 130-year-old copy turned up at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week in the hands of Musician Francis Lantos, a Hungarian-born refugee. Lantos' countryman, Composer Tibor Serly (who deciphered and scored Bartok's famed Viola Concerto), had written his plaintive Chamber Folk Music for violin, piano and tarogato in 1948, but until recently had found no one who could make the instrument sing. Lantos, who broadcasts over
Norma Lee was happy, too. She was helping Peggy and she had a good story. But the happiness melted last week, two days after Norma Lee's first Trib article ran. Peggy phoned Norma Lee at midnight: "I'm in jail again." She had met two musician friends, known addicts, and gone for a ride. Police stopped their car because its lights were off, and arrested all three under a law which forbids addicts to "loiter." The afternoon papers gleefully splashed the story on their front pages. Brayed Hearst's Herald-American: 'i WAS AN ADDICT...
Fiedler also said he admires conductors who have had experience as members of an orchestra. He feels they got to know what a playing musician goes through trying to please the ear of a conductor...
Evenings on the Roof started on a real roof. It was the idea of a critic named Peter Yates and his wife, Concert Pianist Frances Mullen. The Yateses, who like chamber music, began inviting musician friends to their hilltop studio, to play strictly for fun. Word spread, musicians brought other musicians, and the Yateses soon had a full-fledged musicale on their hands. Nowadays, Evenings on the Roof is run by the musicians themselves. Ticket sales (average admission: 60?) cover expenses, and the musicians, many of them drawn from the Los Angeles Symphony and from Hollywood studio orchestras, play...
...that time, the only book she had ever read was Gone With the Wind. Clarinetist Shaw (an alumnus of the New Haven High School and Manhattan's lower East Side) was not satisfied with being just a bandleader ("jitterbugs are morons"), but fancied himself as a serious musician and all-round intellectual. After he married Ava, in 1945, he set out to educate...