Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing a well-proportioned six feet and looking something like a less rugged version of Cinemactor George Sanders, Sir William (knighted in 1951) is a gracious example of a sheltered English composer. Unlike that other popular British musician, Sir Thomas Beecham, Walton is no heady phrasemaker, either in speech or music. Although his music often sounds witty and facile, he writes slowly and for perfection...
Across the jumble of benches Christie stood watching them, bald and spectacled, looking exactly like the 55-year-old, $23 a-week clerk he was. One of seven children, he had been spoiled by his mother, a talented musician, bullied by his father. Early in life sexual immaturity made him the butt of girl-friend jokes. In World War I he was wounded by a mustard-gas shell, lost his sight for five months and the power of speech for three years. Working as a clerk, he met and married Ethel Simpson, took a job as a postman...
Third Generation. The man who performs those miracles protests that he is not at all perfect, but the fact is that he is a phenomenal musician who has been playing ever since three, when he razzed out his first toot on the horn. At twelve, he began to study seriously, kept at his work through World War II (Royal Air Force Band), and is now first horn with London's Philharmonia Orchestra...
...arts lost a great modern painter and a world-renowned Russian musician famous for his Peter and the Wolf...
Today the field is no longer oriented to the professional musician and specialist. Under department head Randall Thompson, a concerted effort is being made to attract students who are still unsure of their field of concentration. Much of the technical barbed-wire once felt to surround the field has been removed...