Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poorly paid, migrant workers who are kept in line by hired goons and their competition with each other for scarce field jobs. While living with the migrant workers, Woody meets up with Ozark Bule (Ronny Cox), a country singer and union organizer (Bule actually is a composite of several musician-agricultural workers' union organizers Woody knew during that time) who gets Woody a steady job at a local radio station. For a while Woody divides his time between radio performances and union organizing, eventually saving up enough money to buy a house and bring his family out to California...
...this time he could be right. Berkeleetrained Van Duser specializes in finger-picking--bluegrass, jazz, classical, and an incredible version of "Stars and Stripes Forever" in which he simultaneously plays bass, melody, and piccolo parts. Novick, who played with David Bromberg for a few years, is mainly a jazz musician...
...Halle. When a nerve disorder damaged a finger of the left hand several years later, he turned to conducting. At 32 he became music director of the Dresden Opera. There were, later on, tours of the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries. But recalls Tennstedt: "For any musician, travel was restricted, and there were so few possibilities for growth. Modern music from the West was off limits. East Germany has many composers, but very few good ones. Nor does it have many good orchestras...
...playing furiously, or do a deep knee bend during tender moments. In his lexicon of body English, an avian flap of the elbow is as meaningful as a sword thrust of the baton. The fluid gestures may be idiosyncratic, but they rarely fail to communicate. Says Tennstedt: "The musician must have the feeling that what the conductor wants is absolutely right. The musician must want it too. It's a matter of gaming his confidence." Tennstedt is going to be engendering a lot of confidence in the seasons ahead. William Bender
After dropping out of Harvard ("two-and-a-half years later, I decided I hadn't missed much"), bumming around Depression America with a guitar on his back, joining the Army, achieving fame as a musician and leader of the peace movement, confronting the censorship and rejection of many in the country, and facing the needling of Niemans at Harvard, Seeger is not the least bit cynical. "Cynicism's the enemy," Seeger claims, and for all 57 years of struggling with society, Seeger has not lost any of his idealism...