Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musician stood up and jangled a heavy iron chain. A trombone player occupied the spotlight and made wheezing sounds that resembled a sick whale mired in primeval mud. Children in bright blue robes played hand bells. Someone rang sleigh bells. Scattered in the balconies, five trumpeters held foil pie plates up like mutes and blew. The string section looked like errant students assigned to the back of the room to repeat the same musical sentence at least 25 times. That was just about the case (see below). High on a ramp, the strings were lined up facing Assistant Conductor David...
...familiar with the work of either musician, Dizzy gained prominence with Charlie Parker-inspired bebop about 30 years ago, and Betty has been singing some of the sweetest ballads since the early 1950's. Dizzy is a funny guy, who teaches a class in the manner you wish that most of the stuffed shirts around here would teach: breezy, anecdotal, and educational. Betty Carter, is by her own admission, a worker--someone who did not have the natural vocal abilities of a Sarah Vaughan. But she worked at it, and accomplished as much. (I know I'm sounding like...
...Brice) who falls in love with a rogue. Kris Kristofferson's beard takes the place of Omar Sharif's moustache. Tony Orlando even has a small part, but this time, he did not bring Dawn or Gerald Ford with him. Kris plays John Norman Howard, a raunchy, alcoholic rock musician on the way down. Kris wants to go back to the ranch and leave the pressured world of tours, promotions and shows but with Esther's career rising, he is forced to stay in that world, where the marriage falls apart...
Though Caldwell's career as a symphonic conductor continues to flourish (she made her Boston Symphony debut in January), she is a musician who belongs to the stage. She knows how to underscore the big moments in an opera and camouflage the weak ones. Russlan may have its dull moments, but they were hard to detect at Boston's Orpheum Theater, the shabby old moviehouse that currently shelters Sarah and her troupe. Fire belched from a dragon's mouth. A huge severed head blinked a bloodshot eye and sang. Horses flew. So did a witch...
...iron constitution and iron will, Biggs never gave way to the infirmities or arthritis that plagued him for the last 15 or 20 years. Some might have thought his unrelenting drive absurd. He himself had once said organists are considered to be on the "lunatic fringe of musicians, probably because they hang around churches all the time." But even with the good-humored lunacy and uncompromising attitudes toward performance that irritated the organists of the grandiloquent 19th century schools, Biggs serves as a model of a man--and a musician--whose dignity, humility, and integrity we can all admire...