Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tension of the cold war and the thunderous amplifier of modern publicity, the long-legged 23-year-old winner of Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition (TIME, April 21) had overnight become the object of the most explosive single outpouring of popular acclaim ever accorded a U.S. musician. Next week Manhattan will give him a national hero's welcome back to the U.S. with a ticker-tape parade up Broadway. He will go to Washington to be received by the President of the U.S. His first post-Russia concert (in which he will repeat his Moscow prizewinning pieces...
...succeed him, the Club elected Elliot Forbes, former conductor of the Princeton University Glee Club, as director of the HGC and the Radcliffe Choral Society. The University will appoint another musician as University organist and choirmaster, who may become associated with the Divinity School...
...that Senturia did not choose, for his last performance, a work which would allow him to shine somewhat more than the Haydn. But he has never imposed his personality upon the music or the audience, and it seemed entirely appropriate for him to end with a concerto. The mature musician is satisfied with participating, and does not need the constant glare of the spotlight...
...most exciting kind of concert is one which presents an opportunity to come in contact not only with the artistry, but also the personality of a great musician. One of the greatest of our time, Nadia Boulanger, last night accomplished the difficult feat of communicating with every person in the theatre, musicians and listeners alike; and, as if incidentally, produced some inspired moments of music...
...first day there, Gunther briskly informed a startled Intourist official that he had no intention of making only the rubbernecking rounds of collective farms and model factories. Boomed Gunther: "I want to see a really good lunatic asylum, an academy where young artists are trained, and a musician." He saw them-as well as ballets, church services and plays (including a "stunning" Macbeth). He foraged busily from Moscow's P.S. 151 to a children's nursery where they had never heard of diapers. He reached some of the top brass on the merry-go-round of diplomatic receptions...