Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listen again in 1964, when he returned to Manhattan to perform three solo concerts. The critics were ecstatic. What followed was 14 new albums, several sizzling performances on the jazz-festival circuit, and two extended tours of Europe, where Fatha is one of the most popular of all popular musicians. Viewing himself as an "evangelizing musician," Hines says: "People have been walking by me for a long time. Now it's my turn to reach the young people and teach them the old ways, the right ways, the good-time ways...
...retires from the Suisse Romande at the end of next season, one of his first projects will be to write a second book "in order to make the first book clear." His objections to atonality are not those of an old man clinging to the past, but of a musician expressing a carefully thought-out conviction. The trends in new music, he suggests, are simply a sad substitute for originality...
...endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced by the stronger tones of the transverse flute. Then, in the early 1920s, an English musician, Arnold Dolmetsch, began making and playing recorders, and started a revival that spread slowly to Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands...
...some judges felt that Dichter was incomparable. During the second round, he played the Schubert Sonata in A Major and Stravinsky's Petrushka in a dazzling bravura style that prompted Soviet Pianist Lev Vlasenko (who ran second to Cliburn in 1958) to cheer him as "the best musician among the piano finalists...
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.F.A., composer and jazz musician. For teaching the whole world that "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing...