Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome for the elevation to cardinal of St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Ritter was hot-fingered Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, a friend of the new cardinal since 1948. Musician Hampton, who kissed Cardinal Ritter's ring just after the formal papal announcement of his appointment, had made a special trip with a group of Catholics from Indianapolis, Ritter's former diocese. A onetime Catho lic altar boy who now belongs to no church but considers himself "a good-will ambassador of God," Hampton explained: "Cardinal Ritter's work for integration and in the educational field has given...
...dreamy-eyed daughter Zamira (whose name means "peace" in Russian and "nightingale" in Hebrew). When Zamira, now 21, was born, her father said, "I want this baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity." Zamira did not grow up to be a musician, but she soon made it plain that she found Fou's piano music just as enthralling as papa's fiddling. Last week, after becoming a matrimonial duet in a northern suburb of London, she and Fou Ts'Ong, 25, went honeymooning to Malta...
...abandoned subway station; dedicated ears listen while Thelonious Monk passively stirs his piano or Dave Brubeck passionately tinkles his. From Basin Street East to the Roundtable, the Half Note Club to Birdland, the Embers to the Five Spot Café, the big cats prowl; and no jazz musician considers his career made until he has made it in Manhattan. There are also places like the Metropole, where the old-timers of Dixieland stand atop the bar and blare forth to people who come in off Seventh Avenue. Wild Bill Davison, Roy Eldridge, Henry ("Red") Allen-they all show...
...Polish-Russian immigrants who settled in The Bronx, Rivers started out to be a jazz musician. He spent his summers playing the saxophone on the Catskill circuit, even did a hitch at the Juilliard School of Music. His idols were Charlie Parker and Lester Young. But one day Rivers met a girl who had high hopes of becoming a painter. "Enter women," says he of that romance. "That's how it all began...
...choruses of daughters, pirates and policemen; sloppy diction messed up some numbers, and the orchestra periodically submerged the singers. Handling a company as large as this one is, however, no mean feat and DeVoto did more than well enough to retain his title as Harvard's best theatrical musician...