Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DENIS VAUGHAN...
Incoming President Vaughan Carrington Mason, 46, of Manhattan, criticized the King-Anderson bill, too. But, separating himself a little from all the harmony, he took after one of the A.M.A.'s favorite laws, the Kerr-Mills Act, which routes federal money to the states to set up medical-care plans for the near-indigent aged. So long as "states that do not even believe in the dignity of some of their citizens . . . deprive Negro citizens of their rights, what faith can I have that they will treat the sick, needy aged Negroes any better...
...Keith Vaughan, 49. Assuming that professional art was for only "the very rich or very foolish," Vaughan went into advertising during the Depression. After the war, borrowing from the cubists, Vaughan extracted and refined his forms "out of the vast ore" of his visual experience. He began painting muted-palette manscapes-landscapes chockablock with men. "I try to divest my figures of any particular identity of purpose or recognizable activity and retain only their essential humanity," he says...
...general effect of the changes, Vaughan found, was to muddy a style that has far greater clarity than Verdi admirers realize. The orchestral volume has been in creased almost without exception, subjecting modern singers to shouting contests that Verdi never intended. Vaughan suspects that the same thing has happened to the works of others-including Bizet, whose manuscript he had a chance to examine briefly in Paris...
Ricordi's angry response is that certain changes are inevitable in the hands of strong conductors like Toscanini, who simply made the music "accord with the times.'' The company's irritation at Vaughan and his supporters is heightened by the fact that the Verdi copyright is due to run out at year's end, and Ricordi is anxious to extend its profitable monopoly for another 20 years. As for Vaughan, he is looking ahead to an "artistic revolution." When the copyright expires, he hopes, the whole operatic orchestra will be tuned back to its proper...