Word: musicman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Called Adam. According to the fantasies cherished by scenario writers, the decline and fall of a great jazz trumpeter never really gets under way until the musicman's sweetheart tells him, as she frequently does, "I won't let you be less than...
Alive with his mission, Partch was soon busy building instruments to play his special music; he was, he said, "a philosophic musicman seduced into carpentry." He put a long neck on a viola to give it "microtonal capabilities"-then he built his Surrogate Kithara, a two-deck, 16-string zither that looks like a pair of overgrown abacuses without the beads. Next came the "Bamboo Marimba" (which Partch affectionately calls "the Boo"), a 64-piece, six-tiered assembly of bamboo rods to be struck by sticks padded with felt. Rising to the grandeur of his tasks, he finally produced...
...dressed to the airy glamour of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Whatever the secret of its appeal, Moon River is the most successful melody to come from a film score since the classic Picnic theme six years ago. And its composer, Henry Mancini, has become Hollywood's hottest musicman. Says the modest Mancini: "I don't know how it happened, but there it is." Home in the Movies. Mancini, 38, spent six years as a back-lot scorer and arranger until an impulsive producer invited him to try his hand at writing background music...