Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believes America to be. But in Another Country this is projected on a wholly inadequate fictional frame: six characters in search of love and self-knowledge in a Dostoevskian substratum of Greenwich Village. Each has been chosen as a representative of melting-pot America. Negro Rufus Scott, a jazz musician from Harlem, has never been able to learn his identity as a man because he could never forget his identity as a Negro. His sister Ida battles the white world too, but ends by yielding to the love of her brother's best friend, an Irish-Italian from Brooklyn...
...other groups belong with the best: > The Alex Bradford Singers take their name from a remarkable musician and an outstanding composer: Bradford's Too Close to Heaven has sold more than a million records. Alabama-born, he is a gifted choir director (now at Newark's Great Abyssinian Church), and his gospel style is notable for its sophistication-particularly in its choral effects. In churches around the country, Bradford and the group shout out their wildly exultant songs while appropriately clad in flowing robes...
Though Mr. Hellman's performance was afflicted with too loud a bass all the way through, we prefer to blame the piano. And if his left hand was occasionally muddy, one may say quite happily that Mr. Hellman is not a virtuoso, but a musician. The bobby-soxers who swooned at the concerts of Franz Liszt would have to go elsewhere for chills and thrills, but anyone looking for a pianist with wit, in the classic sense, should hear Mr. Hellman at the next opportunity...
...Negro, he is convinced that his chances of finding a permanent post in the U.S. are no better now than they were when he decamped for Europe 13 years ago; as a musician, he is so much in demand abroad that he has not been able to take a vacation for eleven years. And his popularity shows no sign of diminishing...
...three years after the young musician won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Orchestra dismissed all of its German players, among them a 'cellist. Leopold Stokowski happened to hear Eisenberg play, and engaged him. He was just fifteen, easily the youngest person ever to play in an American orchestra. "I had to lie about my age to get a union card," muses Eisenberg. "I said I was seventeen...