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...world's virtuosi, none was more certain of his art than Phonographist Joe Warfield. Maestro Warfield's instruments were three phonographs and 300 or so records-and he played them with an artist's rapt care. Warfield was a disquaire, a man who played the phonograph, and he took a witch doctor's grave delight in his work. "I create a mood like a painting," he would say I can make the people dance. I can make them sit down." Awe-struck by such commanding art, a newspaper columnist once told him: "Warfield, if only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instrumentalists: The Compleat Virtuosi | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...Warfield's arena was the doll-house dance floor of the exclusive Princesse, one of the 50 discothèques that currently preside over Parisian night life. La Princesse is a definitive discothèque-a private-unless-we-know-you bar that is smoky, chic and expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instrumentalists: The Compleat Virtuosi | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...offers its customers nothing more than hour after hour of phonograph records and a chance to dance where there is no room to breathe. Having such creatures as null Sagan, Porfirio Rubirosa and Yves Saint-Laurent under his electrified baton was excuse enough for the Pavlovian power Warfield felt, but like all pioneer artists, he was misunderstood in his time. Last week, for all his genius, he was fired on the implied charge that he was turning the Princesse into a laboratory for psy-chomusical research; he had become a power-crazed, prima donna player of the phonograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instrumentalists: The Compleat Virtuosi | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Metropolitan Opera Soprano Elaine Malbin, Tenor Sandor Kenya, Baritone William Warfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 24, 1963 | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...father was fire chief. But after a year in the Roxy Theater chorus (four shows a day for 291 days running), some brief bad luck on Broadway, and a distant whiff of glory at the Met, he was wholly devoted to opera. He and his mezzo-soprano wife, Sandra Warfield. moved off to Bonn for a year, then to Milan for two, in search of the experience the Met had denied him. Europeans were quick to recognize the value of McCracken's voice, but though he sounded just right for lyric romantic roles, his size cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: A Day's Work | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

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