Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warrior hair, Anna was born in London in 1911. Her family was a conservative phalanx of British army officers. In that stratum, "you resigned the regiment if you wanted to marry an actress," she says. No one wanted an actress daughter either, so Anna was trained as a serious musician. She did not turn to comedy and show business until...
...Pops concerts are so much fun that they are booked solid up to a year in advance by such diverse groups as the Democratic Women on Wheels and the Boston Police Department. "Fiedler could conduct six nuns playing the cello and it would be a sellout," claims one Pops musician...
...from Handel, Frescobaldi, Poulenc and Stravinsky. He delights in proclaiming, "I've been accused of making more friends for music than any other conductor. I have no use for those snobs who look down their noses at everything but the most highbrow music. I'm a serious musician, but I don't want to be classified. I'd be bored doing only symphony music...
...Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, jazz musician-D.H. He serves art and humanity at once...
Sometimes the Duke descends to dismayingly unctuous moments on the bandstand; "I love you madly," he will coo, "and the fellows love you madly too." But such lapses do not deter the musician from his work. When 500 fans gathered at Columbia University last month for the Ellington Society's annual tribute to the maestro, the Duke himself appeared to present the musical offering. "I will now rehearse," he said softly, and with that the aging Duke sat down at the piano for an hour of the finest Ellington anyone had heard in years...