Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ideology. Stalin learned something from the purges: the power that ideas have over men's minds. Since the death of Lenin he had repeated, to the point of nausea, the old Leninist slogans. Now he began to develop the myth of Leninist-Stalinist infallibility. Every Soviet writer, poet, musician and painter was expected to devote his energies to enlarging the myth by incessant repetition. The highest peak in Russia was named for him, as were at least 15 towns, innumerable factories and streets. Copies of his collected works were printed in scores of millions. A new metal was called...
Composer Berezowsky, once a violinist with the Coolidge Quartet and now a staff musician at CBS, turned in an hour-long score of easy melodies and rather plush harmonies. When an elephant became perplexed, the violins and xylophone played good-humored glissandos. When a camel strode, the tuba booped in tempo. And when a song showed signs of becoming too sugary, its harmonies were spiced with dissonance. Berezowsky's best moments came in the circus scene, when he let him self go in razzle-dazzle imitations of a wind band...
...musician himself, Granz became a jazz fan while a philosophy major at U.C.L.A. After his junior year, he rounded up a group of little-known musicians who are now famed in their fields-Pianist Nat King Cole, Saxophonist Lester Young and Singer Billie Holliday-and held his first concert. "I felt there was something lacking," he says. "Nobody was bringing together the great musicians...
...Europe, he was a celebrated radio musician, performing constantly on Paris stations. He had fled to Paris in 1920 after spending seven years in the Russian army...
...Smith's radio program he had done a good week's work. His pitch might run from "Please play this song-if only to ease the pain of my ulcers" to "What prizefight or show would you like to see?" Although such a plugger was usually no musician, he was blood brother to the tired-looking gent behind music-store counters, pumping out sheet music on the piano...