Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waart, 37. Following Ozawa in San Francisco has not been easy for De Waart. Ozawa is a spellbinder and a colorist. De Waart, who will continue with the Rotterdam Philharmonic another year, is a solid, serious musician. He programs lots of the classics, Mozart and Haydn, but also likes such modernists as Berg and Bartok. "None of the young conductors has a wide repertory, but De Waart is anxious to learn and that separates him from the rest," says Milton Salkind, president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. De Waart is not worried: "Herbert von Karajan once said...
...take off so spontaneously that Stoltzman might almost be improvising-as he often does. He recently took part in a jazz workshop at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and let fly with some big-band solos. Says he: "I told them that I'm basically a classical musician, but that I love jazz...
Lecture/Demonstration: Thursday Speaker Series--"Third Stream Music." Ran Blake, musician. 4 p.m., Paine Hall. Free...
Gary Busey, himself a part-time rock musician with Leon Russell's band, delivers Holly's hits adequately; his That'll Be the Day palls only when compared point-blank with the original. As an actor. Busey comes into his own this time around, after a career of character roles in little-seen films (Straight Time, The Last American Hero). Whether he is playing Holly as a hick in the big city or a lovesick husband or a teen-age idol, Busey always seems convincing. He brings a swagger to the musical numbers and an engaging buck...
...broad-ranging musician who has even played on rock records, Rosen won the Naumburg cello competition in New York last year. His new triumph was no surprise to his father, who accompanied his son to Moscow and predicted the outcome from the start...