Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most justly renowned of all time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through, both before and after the performance...
Facing most often toward Conductor Mitropoulos, playing with the orchestra rather than in front of it, Szigeti again proved himself a master musician. Among the warm and thrilling tones there were occasionally irritating and unviolinlike sounds-scratching, coarseness of tone, a nervous, whining vibrato. But, as he had been showing U.S. audiences for a quarter of a century, Violinist Szigeti could still produce music with an impact seldom reached by many a more spectacular technician...
Bruno was not releasing any figures on his income last week-he did not care to let the tax collectors in on anything so personal-but he was as close to a rage as any pop musician can get in a land of opera lovers...
...Broken Knee. Balanchine is also a first-class musician. Although he never performs in public, his friend Igor Stravinsky insists that his piano playing is of "concert" caliber; on occasion, he has taken baton in hand, conducted the New York City Ballet orchestra in ballet performances. At 46, a U.S. resident for 17 years and a citizen for twelve, he is also, beyond doubt, the finest living choreographer. No one today can equal the lyric grace of his inventions, the cool classicism of his abstract designs. Totting up all of his various qualities, the Nation's exacting...
First choosy, Paul C. deVergie '51 has an impressive family background; his father is obooist with the Boston Symphony. Violist Richard S. Garden 3G is another son of an outstanding musician. Jacques Gordon founded the Gordon String Quartet of Music Mountain, Conn...