Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of the group surrounding the formidable Dr. Johnson. Fanny became the confidante of Mrs. Thrale, who was loved by the great man after his grumpy fashion. When Mr. Thrale died and left his wife free to marry, she passed Johnson by and declared she would marry an Italian musician. This started an immense family row in which Miss Hahn discovers Miss Burney acting with deadly efficiency as a troublemaker...
Kirk Douglas, still looking more like a Champion than a genius, plays the musician, Rick Martin. For the behind-the-scenes trumpet they could have picked Bobby Hackett, the last fine musician of the Bix school. They could have selected any one of a number of good young California trumpeters who worship Beiderbecke's records. So they chose Harry James. This only adds to the public illusion that jazz was discovered in New Orleans by Larry Parks, that it was brought up to Chicago on the riverboats by Arturo de Cordoya, and that every great jazz trumpeter must have sounded...
...this common meeting ground stands 20th Century journalism's great responsibility. Journalism has to talk to the physicist, his wife, his musician son and his political neighbor all at once...
...quickly made a hit with his musicians. Slightly slack after four years of guest conductors, they needed work and polishing; Golschmann gave them both without scraping their tender feelings. Says one musician: "Golschmann gets good discipline without blowing...
...with every seat taken for every concert the receipts are not sufficient to pay even the musician's salaries. Administrative costs, transportation expenses, and the operation of Symphony Hall must be paid for after the musicians are taken care of. Normally orchestras rely on radio broadcasts and record royalties to make up the deficit...