Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican or a Democrat. I'm just a musician very grateful that at last there is a man in Washington is thinking seriously about this need," he said...
...history of music and strict academic form, the more free you will be as you compose later on." Again, she says: "With young composers detail is infinitely important and few pay enough attention to it." Her main concern in teaching is "to develop the conscience of a musician, which is his ear." It is this care for control and intellectual tradition that makes her a great teacher, according to her students. And she can demand much of her students because in her training she demanded at least as much of herself...
...teacher for whom the art one loves has no secrets. Nadia Boulanger knew everything there was to know about music; she knew the oldest and the latest music, pre-Bach and post-Stravinsky, and knew it cold.... I am convinced that it is Mlle. Boulanger's perceptivity as a musician that is at the core of her teaching. She is able to grasp the still uncertain contour of an incomplete sketch, examine it, and fore-tell the probable and possible ways in which it may be developed. She is expert in picking flaws in any work in progress, and knowing...
Flesh-Royal: Any labukh, or musician, particularly a lobat (jazzman). One's own tachka (literally, wheelbarrow), or car. All firmennye (gone guys) and any klevaya chuvikha (classy chick). Anyone with a kusok (one G in rubles) or enough bashli (dough) for a zhelezny (terrific) night on the town and a motor (taxi) back to the khata...
...father's real estate business. He wrote Brown Baby, his best-known song, eleven years ago as an expression of hope for the world inherited by the first of his five children. Then, without learning to read music, he was suddenly composing in earnest, humming his tunes to musician friends who copied them down. "I lose a little that way," he says. "Only music, though. I can type...