Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sociology major headed for a career in business, Dowling is also an accomplished and talented musician. He has composed and arranged orchestrations for piano duets...
Glamour, image and sex appeal are not his bag. At a rehearsal, he is one plain musician talking to others. He may interrupt the music to say, "Take some of that color out of the A flat," or "Make this more crescendo." But he never indulges in exhibitionism or talkfests, which often earn other conductors only the scorn of their players. At a concert, he makes few flourishes in the direction of the audience. "I have no patience," he says, "with those conductors who, though their backs are physically turned to the spectators, spiritually face the ticketholders in an expressionist...
...only the emotional makeup that is wrong. Lawrence was one of those rare anomalies, like Lotte Lenya or Marlene Dietrich, for whom pitch was not important. She could wander off key in every bar, yet the song's content remained pure and intense. Andrews is ten times the musician Lawrence was; her voice never varies a hemisemidemiquaver from the written notes. In the exuberant comic numbers, person and impersonator coincide. But when Julie attempts a bittersweet ballad, like Do, Do, Do or My Ship, the styles collide. Lawrence always suggested a melancholy sensuality; Andrews continually gives the feeling that...
...getting tired of being a studio musician. Some of the stuff I had to play was such rubbish anyway. I chose Jeff Beck because, really, this is the kind of music that I find most satisfying. Rock and blues especially gives me a chance to experiment a little, you know. And Jeff Beck himself is great as a player and it's very interesting doing things with him. Also, I get such a kick out of playing live, the audience reaction thing you know...
...room for special partnerships.) Waller, drumming, is anguished in expression and his hands fly at Jeff's beckoning. Beck stands right by his shoulder watching the drum rallies shake the notes out of his guitar so they slip into the crevices of the beat. Waller too was a studio musician of renown before Beck acquired him, and he too particularly enjoys the freedom and excitement of playing with this group...