Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted that the newer men were better trained than classical musicians, since they can read as well as a musicians, and can improvise as well. "I am constantly at how little a concert musician can do with his ," he said...
...delightful evening spent with Mozart and Beecham." "Why," came the reply, "drag in Mozart?" Or the time he was visiting as an honored guest in Mexico City and was asked his opinion of the regular conductor of the Mexico City Opera. "You know what we do with a musician like that in England?'' he roared. "We clap him in the Tower." The stories clustered so thickly about Sir Thomas Beecham that at his death last week-of a cerebral hemorrhage, at 81-the personal legend almost obscured the professional one. The fact remains that...
...something that must be inflicted on the public." Nobody in his time inflicted music with greater gusto than England's aggressively peaceful man of music. Summing up his career in a mood of rare humility, he remarked: "I will not be called the greatest musician ever." But, added Sir Thomas, "I am better than any damn foreigner...
...International House where she lived, or at the customary candlelit Sunday night suppers. Says a pianist friend of the Juilliard days: "It never entered my mind that Leontyne would not make it." But Leontyne herself was far less sure. She fell in love with a Haitian ("He was no musician." says Leontyne now, "but he sure was an artist"), and when the episode ended abruptly, she began threatening suicide. One night at a Riverside Drive party during which she had been dancing in her stocking feet, she was suddenly overcome by melancholy and started out toward the Hudson. A friend...
With a scholarship, he moved on to Hunter College,* but the sound of the drums remained in his ears, and he quit after one semester to become a musician and actor. He also fell hard at 18 for a 31-year-old dancer who squeezed him, crushed him, and finally threw him out into the street. Darin suggests that this was the start of his defensive brashness and hard-shelled egotism, for which he is now famous (he throws old friends out of his dressing room, barks at audiences, and wades roughly and silently through masses of clutching fans...