Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those stereotyped Mexicans, all sombrero and somnolence; and so on. Joel Crothers, Joel Henning, and Al Graubard, respectively, play these roles, and Caroline Cross is the heroine. What they lack in finesse (a good deal, for some of them), they make...
...Meister Elgar," said Richard Strauss, "is the first English progressive musician." The year was 1902, and Strauss had just heard Edward Elgar's massive oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. Since then, Gerontius has remained one of the most widely praised-and least frequently heard -monuments of English music. Last week Manhattan concertgoers had a chance to hear the full Gerontius score for the first time in a quarter-century. The occasion: a performance by the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir under Guest Conductor Sir John Barbirolli...
...Perhaps Britain's most popular conductor (he was knighted in 1949), Barbirolli recalled last week that he had started his career as a cellist at the age of eleven: "If I can live for the next two years, I will have been before the public as a musician for 50 years. Every man in the public eye must have his ups and downs. They can't let the downs stop them...
Underground Snobbery. As show biz turned to spy biz, the impresario discovered that the dedicated Communists of the Soviet spy apparatus were snobs about money, names and culture. They were not impressed so much by the fact that Musician Morros had been Piatigorsky's first cello teacher as that he had once paid Ginger Rogers $75 a week, and that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope had jostled backstage for a job at Paramount. Also, incredible as it may seem, the Russians were grateful because he had turned down a flesh peddler's offer of Leon Trotsky...
...STARS GROW PALE, by Karl Bjarnhof. Written by a Danish author and musician, who is himself blind, Bjarnhof's fictional memoir of a boy gradually losing his sight is steadily touching, not once sentimental. In it, blindness leads to selfdiscovery, and when music fills the boy's dark world, it is as if he had won a major victory...