Word: musician
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...tall, thin man with closely cropped hair, Bentley had originally intended to be a concert pianist. The prospect of the professional musician's grim life changed his mind at the last minute, and he went from Oxford to Yale, where he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature. Among his many books and anthologies, The Playwright as Thinker (1946) and In Search of a Theater (1947), are the most well known. He has attracted a wide audience of grateful readers with his series of anthologies, From the Modern Repertoire, The Modern Theater, and The Classic Theater. Bentley as an anthologizer tends...
...Pastor Guymer is no Reverend Davidson, and in the end it is not his suicide that closes the book. The unbending wrath of the Old Testament fills Guymer, and he calls down the vengeance of the God he loves upon the parishioners he despises. Germaine listens with a musician's delighted ear as he roars about frippery and fornication. She squirms with amusement at the thought that she is the Baal worshiper whom the pastor is denouncing. Men are no more than characters in a bedroom farce to Germaine, but Guymer is a character with a rumbling voice...
Billy Wilder, who wrote and directed Some Like It Hot, is an ingenious man: he plays on erotic fantasies for every taste, manipulating all the tested devices of the "Amazon" movies. Imagine being a jazz musician (Jack Lemmon) who has to escape a gang of Chicago bootleggers because you inadvertantly witnessed the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Imagine that your only traveling to Florida. Finally, picture yourself on a train way out is to disguise yourself and join an all-girls band with nothing but girls, all of them in flimsy negligees, one of them Marilyn Monroe, crawling all over...
...perfectly cast, and she is great. And she sings, too. Tony Curtis makes one of his rare appearances as something other than a stud, and though he lacks Lemmon's and Monroe's sense of timing and their warmth, his performance has charm, especially when he plays the musician posing as a millionaire by imitating Cary Grant...
Although Hindemith rarely gets a chance these days to play the role of Compleat Musician, he manages to keep briskly occupied. Since leaving the U.S., where he taught at Yale, he has lived with his wife in Switzerland ("We live in the mountains; where, is a military secret"). He teaches at the University of Zurich, retires from the world for five months each year to compose. Among the works proposed: an orchestral piece for the opening of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Next summer he will conduct the Santa Fe Opera in three performances of his opera News...