Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thompson also supported the Pulitzer advisory board for rejecting the music jury's recommendation that a special citation be given to Duke Ellington. Although Ellington is an accomplished musician, Thompson said, "the prize was not created for music in that sphere...
Anatomizing Mother-in-Law. Rivers started out as a jazz musician. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music, plays the saxophone with a jazz combo called the Upper Bohemians. But shortly after being discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1943, he signed up in Hans Hoffmann's painting classes. Rivers proved a hip but argumentative pupil. The canvas rectangle was then viewed as a neutral battleground whose every square inch must show the vital push and pull of his artistic struggle. How was it, Rivers wanted to know, that the greats of the past were good even...
Delightful Puff. Playing variations on a theme comes naturally to a jazz musician. Rivers has carried much of this facility over into his painting. As jazz will use parts of a familiar tune to take off for bluer skies, Rivers is content to borrow bits of the old masters or leave parts of his painting unfinished and out of focus. Sometimes he will simply jot down on the canvas notations to color an area ocher or blue and then not bother coloring it. By this, he is leaving hints at the process of art as a form of living improvisation...
...Piatigorsky's suggestion, "Virtually any mediocrity can rise to fame as a maestro," has little truth in fact. The American conductor, in particular, must be a dedicated, articulate and consummate musician if he is to survive the limitations imposed by our culture...
...about time that a respected musician had the courage to expose the hoax that conductors have perpetrated on the music-loving public...