Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Bellamann knows his locale because he was born there-in Fulton, Mo. in 1882-and educated at the town's college. A musician and teacher of music, onetime dean of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, he writes with a composer's power of conception, a doctoral insipidity of style. In his long (674-page) chronicle he deals boldly, methodically with the social rigidities, dignities and horrors of life in the town of Kings Row at the turn of the century. The pattern is complete; the vision is undistinguished...
...towards dancers. Donahue is almost the only man I know in the business who looks as though he belongs in front of a band and knows what to do there. He's cordial and obliging without being artificial, and provides a much needed and seldom obtained link between the musician and the listener. By all means, catch the band; they're having a Harvard Night Thursday; might not be a bad idea to go then...
...second time this week a musician's union interfered with a student production when a New York local yesterday forced the cancellation of an intercollegiate Orchestra's concert in which several undergraduates were scheduled to participate...
...program, which is open to the public, includes: Concerto, "Dumbarton Oaks"; Octet for Wind Instruments; Concerto for two pianos, played by Mr. Strawinsky and Adele Marcus; and "Histoire d'un Soldat." Mr. Strawinsky, a noted composer and musician, announces that the program will be free of charge...
...scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...