Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carl Ruggles, D. MUS., composer and painter. As an artist as well as musician, you have truly earned the attribution "a 20th century Leonardo...
Stokowski can get away with adventuresome programming simply because he is the undisputed boss of the whole works. Since all of the players are hired on a one-performance basis, Stokowski can hire and fire without interference from his old nemeses, the unions and the trustees. Whenever a musician makes a mistake, he is painfully aware that there are replacements waiting ten-deep in the wings. Each week Stokowski auditions 20 aspirants in his penthouse on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, carefully grades them, and enters their names in a black looseleaf notebook that bulges with his ratings...
...eleven of the original twelve woodwind players. When one violinist came late to rehearsal, Stokowski ceremoniously pulled out his book and made a big circle around his name. Next day, a replacement was sitting in his chair. He can also be the very soul of charm. Says one musician: "He is like the morning fog. When it lifts, everything is wonderfully lucid and beautiful. When it falls again, he is absolutely inscrutable...
...Musician Robert D. Levin '68, of Adams House and New York, has been awarded $500 by the Board of Judges of the Lill Boulanger Memorial Fund...
...heady ascent to fame has left Mrs. Miller slightly bemused, and still sweetly oblivious to the fact that she can't sing worth a hoot. "I'm not the best musician in the world," she says modestly. "My musicianship might crumble under someone like Leonard Bernstein." And while she candidly admits that her classically trained voice is not attuned to rock 'n' roll, she is touched by the interest of her teen-age fans. Last week, while trying to decide which of her two concert gowns she will wear for her appearance on the Ed Sullivan...