Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...praising his "artistic integrity and surety of execution." The Daily Express' Cecil Smith, usually a hard man to please, went overboard: "Not since the piano playing of the 23-year-old Horowitz burst on Western ears 25 years ago has Russia given us so staggeringly gifted a young musician...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for the first time Sunday night, and it gave its finest performance in many years. Since the personnel of the orchestra is substantially the same as last season, much of Sunday's success must be attributed to Burgin's direction. He is an experienced and talented musician, so it is not too surprising that the entire orchestra--from the marvelous solo trumpet to the lowliest of the second violins--should exhibit such a high degree of discipline and responsiveness. What is surprising is the overflowing enthusiasm of the group: eighty-five musicians who like their conductor, like...
...CREATIVE PROCESS elaborates Malraux's notion that art, not nature, is the true inspiration of art: "Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet poems and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a man who is thrilled by figures and landscapes. He is essentially one who loves pictures...
Suddenly the tension broke as the partly red, partly trench coated band blared out of Memorial; across the street it marched, effectively blocking traffic. A widecyed neophyte questioned the second trombonist, "Where is the band going to march?" The musician answered evasively, "All over," then slyly queried, "You from Princeton?" Seeing the hastily produced Bursar's Card, he explained, "It's a good thing, otherwise you'd get killed tonight...
...remainder of the program Miss Colish lost her inhibitions and played brilliantly. Five Romanian Folk Dance by Bartok, each a compact little bundle of emotion, received thoughtful, idiomatic performances. I especially liked Pe Loc, whose ceric and exceedingly difficult harmonics have doubtless been the undoing of many a lesser musician...