Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened to Jose? So far as he is concerned, nothing. He scorns the critics as people who have decided "that a classical musician must be compatible with their ideas of what a classical musician should be." Adds Iturbi: "If I am not good enough, the audiences will not come any more and I shall give up playing...
Music reviewing takes more than a technical knowledge of music. It requires translating a detailed, subjective impression into comprehensible terms. Thomson is a good critic and a sound musician. More important, he expresses himself pungently and clearly. He is particularly adept at the critics' most difficult task--describing sound. Only occasionally does he lapse into Downesian superlatives or vague adjectives like "good" and "adequate." His criticism of performance is objective and incisive; his evaluation and exposition of form is wonderfully clear. Thomson's brightness and wit ("Wagner's musical dramas are conceived for a theater of whales") make him very...
Last night's concert by the Boston Symphony in Sanders Theatre contained some beautiful examples of what not to do. The only musician who escaped unscathed was Beethoven; his straight-forward "Egmont" overture received the powerful performance it merited--but when that was over, the troubles began...
...something a little unearthly about the way he rolls and pops his eyes, but the fact is he's one of the cleverest comedians around. His humor leans toward the macabre, a fact that is quite refreshing in itself. The young man's monologue as a marijuana-smoking bop musician is fast and witty...
Henry Bellamann, musician and teacher, hoped to write a three-volume novel about the lives and loves of his home, own, Fulton, Mo. (pop. 10,040). The first volume, Kings Row, published in 1940, leaded bestseller lists, sold more than a million copies, was made into a movie 'starring Robert Cummings and Ann sheridan) that kept much of the novel's sadism, incest and violence. After Bella-nann's death in 1945, his wife Katherine completed and published his Parris Mitchell of Kings Row. The third volume has never been written...