Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world," Violinist Fritz Kreisler once explained, "is a great child and tires easily. You cannot make friends for long with all the world." But Violinist Kreisler must have had second thoughts. No musician of his time carried on a longer musical friendship with the world-and none left behind a less jaded audience when he finally withdrew from the concert stage. Kreisler was not only the greatest violinist of his generation, but also the last of a once common breed: his death last week, of a heart attack, just four days before his 87th birthday, marked...
...Jewish immigrant who ran a thriving butter and eggs business. Later, the family moved to Brooklyn, and Swifty took his LL.B at Brooklyn Law School. Sophie Tucker was one of his early legal clients, and he got into agenting when a nightclub impresario mentioned that he needed a Hawaiian musician. Swifty remembered one but could not recall the fellow's name. "I can get you Johnny Pineapple," he said recklessly. Then he tracked the Hawaiian down, told him his new name was Johnny Pineapple and booked him into the impresario's club. David Kaonohi is still performing...
Though Mr. Wiseman can use the defense that much modern music is anti-lyrical (whatever that means), a performance by a musician such as himself of music a little more au courant than Faure would have been most welcome...
...critical success, extravagantly admired by the eggheads of jazz. Since then, he has become the biggest record seller in jazz-and some of the critics have yet to forgive him his popularity. Last week Brubeck completed one of the most successful tours ever staged by a jazz musician in England-and still he took a pounding in the press...
...critics, Benny Green of the London Observer, even managed to praise and condemn the same tour. In the program notes, which he wrote, Green found Brubeck's appeal "to the casual listener as well as to the specialist" to be "one of the most important assets any jazz musician can possess today." In his newspaper column Green grumped that "the quartet is so markedly deficient in certain essential jazz qualities that its popularity can hardly be regarded as a success for jazz at all." Pianist Brubeck was understandably irritated but not unduly worried. His success proved, he said...