Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiniest strokes of stage business and watching nearly every performance. In the belief that "seduction of the audience through the eye is easier than through the ear," he has brought such gifted directors as Jean-Louis Barrault and GianCarlo Menotti to Hamburg to stage his productions; and as a musician, he has persuaded such fellow composers as Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek and Krzystof Penderecki to write new operas for the company...
...coolly spiritual Ninth Symphony. Weakened by overwork, he caught a streptococcus infection while struggling feverishly with his Tenth Symphony ("The devil is dancing with me!" he scrawled in the margin), and died at 50 in 1911. His life was incomplete but, as he once expressed it, "I am a musician; that says everything...
More than neglect, there is a positive disdain for anything that smacks of professionalism: training, preparation or the patient and painful mastery of the literature, difficulty by difficulty. The Harvard musician thinks he is above all that, and sees no reason why he should not tackle the most difficult works at the start. He's knowledgeable and versed enough in recordings to know which pieces are considered the best and the most difficult and it's hard for him to see how anything else would be worth his while...
...Music Department is three-fold: to be the kind of department that attracts secondary school students seriously interested in studying music in college; to act as the center of, or even take an active part in, the musical life of the college; and to attract the most exciting musicians as concentrators. This has led to the peculiar situation in which it is considered ignominious to concentrate in music, and the categories of "musician" and "music major" are almost mutually exclusive. If someone is a flutist and a physics major or a 'cellist and concentrator in history and literature...
...undergraduate musician is extremely conscious of the public eye, if not the public ear. He seems at all times to be out to impress, to make people gasp, "Look at all that boy is doing! And he's only a student...