Culture Boom Masks Plight of Individual Artist in America
The piece chronicles a cultural surge in postwar America with rising museum attendances record book sales and booming orchestras yet says individual artists struggle to earn a living. It cites Henry Cowell Raymond DeCapite and James Michener as examples and notes many musicians and writers hold side jobs to survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Owung
Arthur J. Goldberg
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Henry Cowell
Sean
Cowell
James Michener
Hans Schwieger
Kansas City Philharmonic
Anniversary Gift For Wife Classic Practical Pranks Provoke Laughs
A humor piece jokes that husbands often panic over gifts for anniversaries and offers practical, sometimes cheeky ideas. Examples include peat moss, fill dirt, and two by fours, while noting the value of surprising the wife and avoiding suggestions. The narrator shares a personal anecdote about a sewage repair coinciding with an anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prac
The Arts Show Struggles of Artists and Musicians
The piece surveys how painters musicians and actors juggle scarce work and extra jobs. It highlights opera careers in New York and Europe, regional theaters in Detroit and Iowa, and rising private and corporate funding from the Ford Foundation to support arts amid earnings challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Rudolph Schwartz
Melvin J. Jernigan
Metropolitan
New York
Met
Phyllis Curtin
Teresa Stich-Randall
George London
Europe
Vienna State Opera
Cleveland
Playhouse
Detroit
Vanguard Playhouse
Michigan
William A. Gregory
Detroit Institute of Technology
Sally Collier
John Gregory
Ford Fondation
Ford
Ford Foundation
Katherine Anne Porter
Clarinetist Richard Walker Tours Mississippi with Wind Symphony
Richard Walker a 21 year old High Pointer and rising High Point College student spent June and July touring as first clarinet with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra aboard a 122 foot river barge. The group formed in Pittsburgh by Robert Austin Boudreau in 1957 and has performed on rivers in England and planned productions in Ghana and Nigeria and at the World's Fair. Walker was the sole southeastern U S student accepted this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Rawley
Richard Walker
Walker
High Point College
Peabody Conservatory
American Wind Symphony Orchestra
Mississippi River
Pittsburgh
Thames River
England
Times of London
America
Thames
Ghana
Nigeria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miles A. Smith
Associated Press
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Rembrandt
Modigliani
van Gogh
Metropolitan Museum
United States
William A. Bostick
Detroit Institute of Arts
Raymond DeCapite
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Henry Schmidt
Philadelphia Orchestra
Keith Brown
Herbert Pierson
Jess Arnold
Wolfe City
Tex
Edythe Tylka
Bostick
Detroit Institute
Iowa
Stanley Hess
Drake University
Thomas B. Hess
Art News
San Francisco
Keith Boyle
San Francisco Museum of Art
Sausalito
Calif
Barney West
Redwood
Atlanta
Jarvin Parks
Public Library
Miles Forst
Athens
Sam Wood
Thesr Foundations
Medici
August Belmont
Leontyne Price
Alexander Chisholm
Laurel
Mississippi
North Carolina
First Method
Clarinet
High Point Enterprise
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