Word: musicians
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...tsung was a venerated musician in China and the composer of some 24 works for the violin, piano and orchestra, including a propagandistic Longing for Home that became the signature tune for the regular Red broadcasts beamed at Taiwan. He was at peace with the Red regime until last June, when he and some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write...
Such mixtures seem quite natural to Messiaen, who describes himself as "a born believer, musician and revolutionary." He taught himself to play the piano at eight, at ten was devouring the scores of Don Giovanni, Die Walkure and Pelleas et Melisande. He conceived a lifelong fascination with "all things mysterious and marvelous," and found that musical sounds gave him inner visions of colors; once, he got a stomach ache while watching a ballet because the violet hue of the lighting clashed so badly with the tonality of G major...
...seem when the moods are manufactured by that offbeat brand of musician, the cocktail pianist. The sign outside says "Music for Hand Holders," but he plays for not only the bewitched but also the bothered, bewildered and just plain bombed. His salon is a saloon with carpeting, usually sporting a get-away-from-it-all name like the Shangri-la or the Windjammer. The lights are low, and the prices are high. And what escape the customer cannot find in the alcohol and easy ambiance, the cocktail pianist provides with a painless medley of ballads, show tunes, light classics...
Related to the idea of a moratorium is a factor that we have noticed about the Harvard environment, that of freedom. Apart from academic de- Vocational Interests with the Highest Average Mean Score for Harvard Class of 1964 and 1965, Senior Year: 1. Musician (performer) 40.6 2. Librarian 40.3 3. Psychologist 40.1 4. Author-journalist 37.5 5. Psychiatrist 36.7 6. Lawyer 36.6 7. Public administrator 35.6 8. Social worker 35.6 9. Rehabilitation counselor 34.6 10. Physician 34.4 11. Biologist 33.9 12. Music teacher 33.6 13. Advertising man 33.4 14. Artist...
...grotesquerie. He elicited a performance that was clear and enunciatorily precise even in the most complex fugal passages. He was also sensitive enough to maintain a continuous musical line and forward motion in spite of his deliberately slow pacing. Former math major or no, Adams is quite a musician. His Lacrymosa, even if most of the section is not Mozart's, was beatific...