Word: instrumentalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with gigantic, sudden, marching chords, constantly accenting with his left hand the lyrical melodies that he plays with his right. The lead-guitarist, John Sheldon, has the kind of rhythmic chording sense that is so conspicuously absent in most white American rock-guitarists. In addition there is a fifth instrumentalist in the group, Kenny Haag, who provides some extra syncopation on rhythm guitar or tambourine or whatever is at hand...
...charm; he is the smoother-over, the explainer, as pleasingly facile at life as he is at composing melodies. George, once the least visible of the group, now focuses his energies on Indian music and philosophy; an occasional contributor to the Beatle songbook, he is the most accomplished instrumentalist of the lot (he has always played lead guitar...
Leonard Bernstein '39, conductor, composer, and instrumentalist, received a Doctor of Music degree. Honorary Doctor of Arts degrees went to Ben Shahn for his painting and graphic art, and to Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design...
...Fabares) who offers him $5,000 to make beautiful music for her alone. Another is a lady sociologist (Diane McBain) who wants to interview him in depth, just to prove that her "analysis of the mating motive is right on the button." Still another (Deborah Walley) is a lady instrumentalist who offers him a mean rhythm section and something that in her wide Midwestern accent sounds like "goremay...
...roars. "They are feasting on something that is stale." Not so. They are feasting a most remarkable virtuoso. Rubinstein has played more concerts before more people, sold more record albums (more than 5,000,000), grossed more money and attracted a more widely popular following than any other classical instrumentalist in history. At a time when artists 25 years his junior are gearing down for retirement, he is shifting into overdrive. This season he will perform virtually every third day in concert halls from Ithaca to Istanbul. The real wonder is not that he is still going so strong...