Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belt of the Muse. In moments of introspection Musician Engel thinks of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "That genius," he says, "wrote to order. He had no time for the muse to belt him." If the muse has failed to lay a glove on Engel, it is chiefly because he moves too fast. He has presided over the pit orchestras of roughly 130 Broadway productions, headed an esoteric organization called the Madrigal Singers, written reams of articles and a bag of books, including a five-volume study of European music entitled Renaissance to Baroque...
Pete Dawkins (Army) is something more than a fine halfback. He is captain of the team, first captain of the cadet corps, president and seventh-ranking scholar of his class, hockey defenseman and musician (he plays four instruments). In Army's new wide-open offense, Dawkins specializes in slashing runs to the weak side, is the team's top pass receiver and the nation's leadiRg scorer (74 points...
...visitors at the Brussels World's Fair, some 200,000 popularity votes were cast by a poly-national assortment of voters who named their American favorites. Statesman: Abraham Lincoln. Actress: Kim Novak (who drew more than twice as many votes as second-running Marilyn Monroe). University: Harvard. Musician: Louis Armstrong. Most Important Immigrant to the U.S.: Albert Einstsin, distantly followed by Thomas Mann...
...conductor is John Harbison '60, a former violinist and trombonist in the orchestra. Harbison is an excellent musician, and when he and the orchestra gain more rapport with each other, as they did only occasionally last night, many of the minor imperfections of the first concert will disappear. He needs much more assurance, and is at present far too restrained, especially in making sudden contrasts and shaping phrases...
Died. Maurice de Vlaminck, 82, earthy celebrator in paint of storm-clouded landscapes, a leader (with Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault) of the flamboyant Fauves (wild beasts) who shocked Paris art circles near the century's turn; at his farmhouse near Paris. The son of musician parents, husky Maurice worked intermittently as a factory hand, bicycle racer and gypsy fiddler, turned intently to painting in his 205 after his first awed exposure to the explosive colors of Van Gogh and a chance meeting with Fauve-to-be Andre Derain. Vlaminck became famous overnight after shrewd Dealer Ambroise Vollard bought...