Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the glee club's effectiveness derives from Woody Woodworth's genius for making the choral literature exciting. A sharp-featured, intense man, he throws himself into his work with such flamboyant enthusiasm that one Boston Symphony musician watching him conduct last week said wonderingly: "Who does he think he is-Koussevitzky?" Conductor...
...teach courses in analysis properly, the Department quite legitimately feels it has a right to expect a solid background of technical knowledge and skill. This background is not to be found in high school music appreciation courses or in a the typical instrumental training of the amateur musician. Therefore, only those with extensive previous training, usually in a conservatory, are in a position to dispense with the elementary harmony course designed to supply the basic techniques of musical analysis. Since very few performers go to college even today, almost no student is exempt from Music 51, and it is through...
...Department of Music will probably offer the non-musician next year a new course, "Theory for the non-Con-centrator," John M. Ward, chairman of the Department, disclosed yesterday...
...here with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony orchestras." Senofsky has not played in any of Manhattan's major halls since his Brussels victory. Who is at fault? "All of us." said Taubman. "Managers, boards of directors, public, critics. Mr. Senofsky is not the only American musician who . . . has failed to be treated with sufficient honor at home. It is an old American habit to minimize...
...uneven tenor of his weight. As the man gets fatter, the voice seems to get thinner. This time Tenor Lanza, by dint of strenuous fasting, has wasted himself away to a mere 200 Ibs., and his tone is as plump as a Percheron's rump. As a musician, though, Lanza owes perhaps too much to his early conditioning as a delivery man for a wholesale grocer. No matter how light the aria, he delivers it-grunting and sweating and rolling his eyes -like a crate of olive...