Word: musician
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This demonstrates on a grand scale a problem with all musical activity here -- opera, symphony and chamber music alike. In the rush to make his mark on the music scene, the Harvard musician tends to aim high, choosing to perform works guaranteed to get him one up on his fellow musicians and impress the dickens out of the general community. Very often there is more interest in the idea of the thing rather than in obtaining the best musical result. All too often one gets the impression the projects' progenitors had one of those "hey-wouldn't-it-be-fantastic...
Music is one area in which the Harvard undergraduate's well-advertised intelligence is, in a certain sense, a liability. The typical musician here is bright, attentive and clever enough to sight-read and/or fake his way through almost any part that is put in front of him. These are assets valuable in any musician, but the Harvard undergraduate often commits the grave error of depending on his native intelligence and talent to get him by, rather than using them as a tool for achieving a fuller understanding and more meaningful performance of the music. The typical musician performs...
...priceless cello bow, belonging to Soviet cellist Mstislav Rostropivich, was stolen Sunday at the musician's open rehearsal at Sanders Theatre. The bow, made out of tortoise shell with gold trim, was a gift from Gregor Piatagorsky, another world-famous cellist. Inscribed on it are "sartory" and "made especially for Mr.Piatagorsky...
...stage was set for a real-life version of the scene in which the Unknown Young Musician gets his Big Break, triumphs, and rockets to international fame. But the hero balked...
...Life with the Family, and playing the toughest role of his career: being himself. Schultz believes that real eating-talking-sleeping life has all "the pathos, humor and drama of the theater." To prove it, three weeks ago he and his sons Lyle, 4, and Elan, 5, a jazz musician named Marzette, 28, and three dogs and a cat set up house on the stage of the Headquarters theater in Manhattan's East Village-and invited the public to drop in at any hour of the day or night (tickets...