Word: musicianship
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...recorded three albums -French Art Songs and Songs by Debussy (Victor), Song Recital by Maggie Teyte (Gramophone Shop)-which spread her fame to the U.S. Now Maggie Teyte will see whether her studied musicianship will stand her in as good stead as once her pretty legs and elfish personality did. Says she: "There are many compensations in age . . . for serious music I can even let my hair down...
...rider meeting a new mount-he isn't quite sure he'll go over the fence ahead of the horse or the horse ahead of him. I hope we'll take all the fences together." The audience at his first broadcast saw little chance that his musicianship would challenge that of wise old Arturo Toscanini, who hand-picked Dr. Sargent and who rarely encourages a serious rival...
...original form of music, will soon be right up there on top with Dolly Dawn, Al Dexter, and the rest of the "big time" bands. The fact that they have been booked by the Tic Toc and will open there next week is proof enough of their fine musicianship. No doubt they will take the place by storm and may even receive a bigger hand than the juggler who has been working there since...
...Great Sin." Part of Anton Bruckner's trouble was unquestionably his personality. He was living proof that brains and great creative musicianship do not necessarily occupy the same skull. A simple-minded peasant who spent his early life as a schoolteacher (at a salary of 80? a month) and church organist, he never got the hayseeds out of his close-cropped hair. His courtesy was a little like that of an uneasy headwaiter. He referred to people he met as "Your Grace," addressed Brahms as "Mr. President." He was always imagining himself in love with some chambermaid or adolescent...
Among the fringier gents of the "give it hell" school of Chicago jazz is Boyco Brown, the alto saxophonist, who not only studies metaphysics but applies them to his musicianship and even his everyday existence. When he tangled with spiritual Tut Soper (who also plays phenomenal piano) the lid was off and it was strictly a case for the man with...