"Pop" Wyman ruled here with a firm but gentle hand; no drunken man was ever served at the bar; no married man was allowed to play ...at the tables; across the face of the large clock was written "Please Don't Swear," and over the orchestra appeared the gentle admonition, "Don't Shoot the Pianist--He's Doing His Damndest."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the dogho...use, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever [Leonard Bernstein] entered or exited a country he would fill in on his passport form not composer or conductor, but musi...cian. Of course people in the press spent a lot of Lenny's life telling him what he should have done; he should have been a concert pianist, he should have composed more.... And people wouldn't let him live his own life. But he created his own career, in his own image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin--preludes, e...tudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, or... possibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaf and blood at the root... Black bodies swingin' in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' in the poplar trees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no longer passes for musical cultu...re.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »