Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other orchestral sources around the country are moved, it is mostly to outrage. "Schuller is a fantastic composer and musician," says Irving Bush, trumpeter with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, "but he is an absolutely atrocious conductor. When someone can't conduct at all, of course the musicians are going to be bored." Frank Miller, principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony, defends unionization by recalling the way things were before the union had clout: "Every year, 30 or 40 people were fired for such things as inattentiveness to a particular note." Some musicians concede, however, that the modern union contract...
Then some musician friends chipped in to make a record, which she mailed to a lawyer friend in Los Angeles. He decided to manage her and sent a demo tape to CBS Records. Within a month Lacy J. was signed by Sherrill...
...father, Piano Virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein, had trained him as a musician, and he turned out to have a natural tal ent for the language of hand and rin gers. It took him only three weeks to learn to sign the role fluently. "I fell in love with the whole concept of sign," he says, "communicating physically and poetically." What makes the role so difficult is that he must speak...
DARYL HALL, the blond keyboardist of Hall and Oates, momentarily broke loose in the summer of 1977 from the laid-back, blue-eyed soul image he had built with the duo, and surreptitiously recorded an album under the production of Robert Fripp, a well-known avant-garde musician. RCA, Hall's record company, refused to release the album because it feared that the record would shatter Hall's commercially successful, syrupy facade. So, capitalism stifled creative expression until the long-awaited recent release of the in-famous Hall-Fripp collaboration, Sacred Songs...
...Pollini the musician is a critic's dream, Pollini the man is an interviewer's nightmare. He is agreeable and fairly fluent in English, but too shy to traffic in epigrams and anecdotal revelations. Wearing dark-rimmed glasses that are never seen onstage, he sits there, nervously smoking Pall Malls and tapping his foot, turning away one question after another. His ultimate artistic goals? "[Puff.] I try to do in the best possible way this music. That is all." What about his reputation for radical politics? During the Viet Nam War, wasn't he hissed and shouted...