Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best thing a musician can possibly do after he has acquired a great deal of experience," says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, "is to pass it on to younger musicians. So many people are now gone-Kreisler, Toscanini, Rachmaninoff-who never had students. This is a great loss." It is also a sad fact that few celebrated performers have much interest in teaching-and fewer still have any talent for it (Rachmaninoff, for example, was a dour, retiring man, hardly cut out to be the Mr. Chips of the keyboard). Fortunately for a few lucky cellists, however, Piatigorsky, 61, has both...
...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...scarred musician will attest, one of the quickest ways to lose friends is to engage in the precarious art of chamber music. With everyone trying to be boss, squabbles over interpretation can become downright nasty. And with the members of the de Pasquale String Quartet - Joseph, 45, viola; Francis, 44, cello; Robert, 37, and William, 32, violins - it's even more so. They fight constantly. The difference is, they revel in it. But then they are brothers, and this, they explain, is the secret to successful shouting contests...
...eminence of U.S. orchestras stems from a unique musical environment. Always a haven for the displaced musician, the top U.S. orchestras have been able to draw the best performers from an international pool. Thirty years ago, more than half of U.S. symphonies were composed of foreign-born musicians; today the proportion runs about 10%. Thus, U.S. symphonies are free from the national mannerisms that mark European orchestras. And while European players tend to grow phlegmatic in the security of their state-subsidized jobs, the self-supporting arrangement in the U.S. engenders a competition that compels each musician to produce...
...tanned, lanky Hamilton, 26, whose attributes are more highly esteemed by Hollywood starlets than by the movie critics, comes to such sumptuous living, he says, via a "sort of flotsam and jetsam route"-Memphis, Palm Beach, Manhattan, 25 different schools. His late father was a musician and perfume company executive. His Southern-born mother, George says, is "an Auntie Mame, but more warm and contemporary," who has been married and divorced four times...