Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explained Musician Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 4) of Lonely Men: "A combination of lament and quasi-football march...
...widely assorted music. The first half of the concert was played by the Harvard Brass Choir, which made a noble attempt at the Contrapunctus One from Bach's Art of the Fugue, and delighted the audience with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg. The effect of a lusty male chorus singing this with a Brass Choir...
Fired? We'll Strike. As the proposal slowly ground through parliamentary machinery, virtually every musician and official of an opera-owning town began to berate the government. In Naples and Milan, the ballet troupes, orchestras and choral singers threatened with fine Italian logic to strike if they were fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down...
...film effectively communicates a sense of the breadth of Schweitzer's prodigious accomplishments, as writer, teacher, minister, musician, philosopher, doctor, and above all, as a humanitarian. It shows in Schweitzer compassion, devotion, and dedication--verities which usually groan with age and mistreatment when movie-men drag them fleshless from the closet. And you are surprised to be able to accept and enjoy these verities, the film, in an honest...
...although Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's office declined to go so far as to make RWBCLYIOU an official song. Nevertheless, one TV station played the song, and soon hundreds of amateur poets peppered the IRS with lively comments and suggestions. Sample, from a Joplin (Mo.) chiropractor and amateur musician, who wrote a lament to Tax Form 1040 (The One-O-Four-0 Blues) : "I fear that I'll be tardy/ In completing Form Ten Forty...