Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's life takes in the whole sea of adventure in and out of music. And his treasure ship is the violin...
...Sheds. The musicians live in the students' dormitories, which are either converted farm buildings or handsomely modern wood-and-glass structures, or in nearby cottages. Practice time is unlimited, and practice space is a musician's dormitory room, a laboratory, or one of the sheds scattered through the woods of the old 300-acre farm on which the college was started in 1947. Thus the woods are full of sounds and sweet airs. When players think a work is ready, a decision will be made whether to perform it privately at an informal concert for fellow musicians...
Surprisingly he is also accepted as such by the reader. This second novel by Iris Dornfeld (Jeeney Ray), who is the wife of Nation Editor Carey McWilliams and a musician in her own right, has many faults-among them a bifurcated plot structure and an occasionally cluttered style. But it has one peculiar and overriding merit. In the contorted, possessed character of Boy Gravely, Author Dornfeld has created a marvelously perceptive delineation of the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...Piatigorsky isn't the only musician who wonders why Celibidache's mastery is so poorly appreciated. He has never compromised with mediocre music and musicians nor with petty orchestra managers. Unfortunately, this has cost him many a great opportunity. Playing under him has always been an exhausting but unique experience...
...Hearst; in 1963, the advisory board turned down a prize for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This year no editorial cartoonist was deemed worthy of a prize, and no award was made for music because the advisory board nixed the selection of Jazz Musician Duke Ellington...