Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Fritz Reiner, 74, master conductor, a squat, lusty Hungarian with a precise "vest-pocket" podium style (a daring musician once brought a telescope to rehearsal to catch his minuscule beat), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1922, taught Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, directed the Pittsburgh and Metropolitan Opera orchestras before going to the fading Chicago Symphony in 1953, which he whipped into one of the world's finest ensembles, with a repertory that ran from Mozart to his countryman Kodaly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...opposites. The former produce a strong impression of personal security, while the latter represent people who seem alone and at odds with the world. Miss Swan herself might disagree with this. The musical scenes, which contain perhaps her most haunted faces, are purportedly attempts to "show the interaction of musician and listener." If this is true, the music must at least be in a minor...
There is no shortage of bequests to provide churches and colleges with a carillon; the trouble is there is seldom enough left over for the salary of the rare musician who can play the big bells. North America at present has 115 carillons and only six fulltime carillon-neurs. All six are members of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America, a society of 60 or so friends and players of the carillon who gather yearly to talk about what's new in bell ringing. Last week at the Washington Cathedral's inaugural recital...
Erik Satie was the court musician of Dadaism. He swooped around Paris in the belle époque of the 1900s with a lighted pipe in his pocket and could be seen most afternoons in the cafés with his pocket gently smoldering. He pronounced himself Pope of the "Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor," issued blizzards of encyclicals and excommunicated unfriendly music critics. He cheerfully orchestrated his music for airplane propellers, lottery wheels and typewriters-and occasion ally delivered it to his friends in the form of paper gliders. He also wrote a little work for piano...
...Dangling from his neck is a manzello, a quasi saxophone that forgot to grow up, and a stritch, which resembles a dented blunderbuss and hangs well below his knees. The third instrument is more familiar; it is a tenor sax, and stuffed into its bell is a flute. The musician rocks back and forth on his feet as if uncertain how to begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming...