Oscar Levant Quotes from oscar levant to inspire your creative thinking oscar levant. (19061972) born on Dec 27. US composer, musician, actor. He was a concert pianist of caustic wit who http://www.shellac.org/wams/woscar01.html
Extractions: Who was Oscar Levant ? Besides being one of George Gershwin's (he played Gene Kelly's pianist buddy in the movie version of "American in Paris" and an author. This photograph was scanned from the inside cover of his Columbia album, "Oscar Levant in a Recital of Modern Music," (COL M-508) Oscar Levant was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1906. In the liner notes for his 1942 album of Rhapsody in Blue, (COL MX-251) he started his auto-biographical sketch by commenting: "I was born, like many other children whose parents happened to live in Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, December 27, 1906. It has always been a regret that the event could not have been delayed four days, so that I would have been born in 1907. As it is, I'm reckoned as a nineteen-sixer, and thus thirty-five at the present time, (1942) when I am really only thirty-four." He died in California in 1973. As the title suggests, this album is a collection of a number of lesser-known "modern" (ca late 1930s) musical pieces by such composers as George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel
Classical Net - Composers - Levant oscar levant. (19061972). Introduction. oscar levant And His Concert Music acute and funny books; the radio and television ringmaster; the concert pianist and Gershwin specialist. http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/acc/levant.html
Extractions: Concert Music Catalogue The strength and beauty of his musical accomplishment has long been overshadowed by his public personna. For Oscar Levant, his own music has been silenced by his presumed character: the acerbic crank on the Jack Paar Show; the Broadway showman and Hollywood star; the author of preposterously acute and funny books; the radio and television ringmaster; the concert pianist and Gershwin specialist. No kaleidoscope could serve these many split images. Two decades after his death, the time has come to re-examine his work as a composer of strong and original music. He was, after all, the beneficiary of a powerful education in classical music and piano technique. He studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg and piano with Zygmunt Stojowski. At the height of his career, he performed under the batons of Toscanini, Beecham, Mitropoulos, Reiner, Monteux, and Ormandy. It doesn't help matters that he would not take seriously - at least in the words he used to describe it - his own concert music. Over a decade, he did write string quartets, a woodwind trio, a sinfonietta, and a piano concerto of genuine art and complexity.
Extractions: DeCordova Museum June 1980 INSCRIPTION: verso-(handwritten in ink) "Oscar Levant 4/9/72" (signed) "Avedon" (rubberstamp) "This photograph may not be used for publication without the written permission of Richard Avedon" NOTES: Catalogued 4/86, DZ. Title, date and related information provided by Avedon's studio. Photograph taken in Beverly Hills, California. SUBJECTS:
Extractions: this super book? Click Here Quotes by Abraham Lincoln Al McGuire Albert Einstein Ambrose Bierce Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Franklin Bertrand Russell Charles Dickens Dennis The Menace Ernest Hemingway Finley Peter Dunne Friedrich Nietzsche G K Chesterton George Bernard Shaw George Burns Groucho Marx H. L. Mencken Henry David Thoreau Jean Kerr Jonathan Swift Josh Billings Lord Byron Mae West Marcus T Cicero Mark Twain Miguel De Cervantes Montaigne Napoleon Bonaparte Ogden Nash Oliver Wendell Holmes Oscar Levant Oscar Wilde Ralph Waldo Emerson Rene Descartes Robert Frost Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Rudyard Kipling Samuel Butler Somerset Maugham Victor Hugo Voltaire W C Fields Will Rogers Winston Churchill Woody Allen Yogi Berra Zsa Zsa Gabor Back to Quotes Page Back to Humorous Quotes This site is hosted at www.igosite.com
Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972 (in MARION) 814-72, Beverly Hills, CA; pianist, composer, and writer). LC data base, 9-26-88 (hdg. levant, oscar, 1906- http://gcl.greenville.lib.sc.us/MARION/ABU-8455
Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference Quotations The Columbia World of Quotations PREVIOUS ... AUTHOR INDEX The Columbia World of Quotations. NUMBER: QUOTATION: ATTRIBUTION:
Oscar Levant Includes a filmography and capsule biography of the American pianist, composer and wit known for his work in movies, radio and television. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Levant,+Oscar
Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference Quotations The Columbia World of Quotations PREVIOUS ... AUTHOR INDEX The Columbia World of Quotations. NUMBER: QUOTATION: Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.
George Eastman House Peers And Predecessors Series Avedon, Richard American (1923) TITLE ON OBJECT oscar levant, pianist April9, 1972 gelatin silver print 37.7 x 37.5 cm. oscar levant, pianist. http://www.geh.org/taschen/htmlsrc14/
ELibrary.com - Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR), 'Oscar Levant Profiled ELibrary I THE HAL SHAPER COLLECTION This American Composer, pianist, Actor, Insomniac and Wit, was born in Pittsburgh on 27th December 1906 and died in Beverly Hills on 14th August 1972. http://redirect-west.inktomi.com/click?u=http://ask.elibrary.com/getdoc.asp%3Fpu
LAJS - Oscar Levant world's oldest child prodigy. The son of a Pittsburgh repairman, oscar levant wentto 20th birthday, he had gained renown as a concert pianist, teacher, band http://lajs.home.att.net/bios/OscarLevant.htm
LAJS - 2002-03 Concert2 Rhapsody by oscar levant (west coast premiere) I met a very levant rarely played hisown music, even though he I spent eight years as his pianist and conductor http://lajs.home.att.net/02-03/concert2.htm
Xrefer - Search Results - Levant levant oscar 1906 1972 US pianist and actor. Attrib. levant oscar 1906 1972 US pianistand actor. Replying to George Gershwin's barb `If you had it all http://www.xrefer.com/results.jsp?term=Levant
MSN Learning & Research - Search Results - Levant Read a small collection of memorable quotes from pianist and actor oscar levant. http://encarta.msn.com/teleport/fromTools/find.asp?brand=elibrary&q1=Levant
Hollywood.com Celebrity Biography - Oscar Levant oscar levant Biography Raconteur, TV personality, concert pianist, selfdescribed verbal vampire and sometime supporting player in films. http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/bio/celeb/1675500
Extractions: Raconteur, TV personality, concert pianist, self-described "verbal vampire" and sometime supporting player in films. Levant had originally planned a career as a concert pianist but, after playing in dance bands and becoming George Gershwin's protege, he devoted himself to interpreting the composer's works and, utilizing his own eccentric personality, played character parts or more accurately variations on his own character in films. He did, however, enjoy considerable success as a concert pianist and, at one point in the 1940s, was the highest paid concert artist in the US. Levant's film appearances, too, whether they were musicals or not, usually gave him a chance to play a piano as well. A chain-smoking neurotic and self-professed genius, Levant was noted for his mordant, scathing wit and finely honed insults often hurled against himself and his own hypochondria, manic depression and addictions. Levant first went to Hollywood in 1928, composing film scores and songs (frequently with lyricists Sidney Clare, Dorothy Fields and William Kernell) and, after a bit part in the 1929 "The Dance of Life", was featured in best-chum-of-the-star roles from the 40s on. His first major role was as comic foil for Bing Crosby and Mary Martin in "Rhythm on the River" (1940). In the reverent Gershwin biopic, "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945) he played himself (a role for which Levant insisted he was "horribly miscast"); in "An American in Paris" (1951) he was a semi-autobiographical bohemian pianist; and in "The Band Wagon" (1953), he portrayed an Adolph-Green-like Broadway songwriter.
Extractions: Raconteur, TV personality, concert pianist, self-described "verbal vampire" and sometime supporting player in films. Levant had originally planned a career as a concert pianist but, after playing in dance bands and becoming George Gershwin's protege, he devoted himself to interpreting the composer's works and, utilizing his own eccentric personality, played character parts or more accurately variations on his own character in films. He did, however, enjoy considerable success as a concert pianist and, at one point in the 1940s, was the highest paid concert artist in the US. More...
Paw Prints Anecdotes: Oscar Levant (190672) oscar levant (190672). Biographical Note US pianist, writer, and wit, authorof A Smattering of Ignorance (1940) and Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965). http://www.geocities.com/kashalinka/levant.html
Extractions: Select an Anecdote A-B -Acheson, Dean -Adams, John -Adams, Ansel -Alcott, Louisa May -Aquinas, Saint Thomas -Asimov, Isaac -Astaire, Fred -Barton, Clara -Beecham, Sir Thomas -Beecher, Henry Ward -Begin, Menachem -Belloc, Hilaire -Benchley, Robert -Bernhardt, Sarah -Boone, Daniel -Booth, Junius Brutus -Brahms, Johannes -Brandt, Willy -Browning, Robert -Buber, Martin -Butler, Samuel C -Cadbury, George -Cagney, James -Callas, Maria -Capone, Al -Cardozo, Benjamin -Carnegie, Andrew -Caruso, Enrico -Cato the Censor -Cecil, William -Chaplin, Charlie -Chesterton, G.K. -Christie, Dame Agatha -Churchill, Sir Winston -Cleveland, Frances Folsom -Cleveland, Grover -Cohan, George M. -Coleridge, Samuel Taylor -Columbus, Christopher -Coolidge, Calvin -Copeland, Charles Townsend -Corrigan, Douglas [Wrong-Way] -Croesus -Cyrus II (Cyrus the Great)
Paw Prints Quotes Archives: Oscar Levant Quotes The nickname Tinsel Town was coined by oscar levant, the pianist, composer whoobserved Strip the phoney tinsel off Hollywood, and you'll find the real http://www.geocities.com/kashalinka/ReadingRm/quotes/levant.html
Extractions: Oscar Levant Quotes Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision. So little time and so little to do. I once said cynically of a politician: 'He'll double cross that bridge when he comes to it.' There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side. I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Every time I look at you, I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion. The nickname "Tinsel Town" was coined by Oscar Levant, the pianist, composer who observed: "Strip the phoney tinsel off Hollywood, and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away. Visit our Anecdotes Archives for more information about Oscar Levant. http://www.geocities.com/kashalinka/ReadingRm/quotes/
Westwood Village Memorial Park - Part 4: Stars' Graves of oscar levant (19061972). Best known for his wry, sarcastic wit, levant also co-starredin the movie An American in Paris, was a talented pianist, had his http://www.seeing-stars.com/Buried2/PierceBros4.shtml
Extractions: Chapter Menu - Where the Stars Are Buried Pierce Bros Westwood Memorial Park Hollywood Forever Cemetery Hillside Cemetery Holy Cross Cemetery Forest Lawn Glendale Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Inglewood Park Oakwood Memorial Park Woodlawn Memorial Park Pacific View Memorial Park Mount Sinai Memorial Park Forest Lawn Cypress The Lake Shrine San Fernando Cemetery Valhalla Memorial Park Home of Peace Cemetery Calvary Cemetery Eden Memorial Park Ascension Cemetery Valley Oaks Rosedale Cemetery Chapel of the Pines Evergreen Cemetery Grandview Memorial Park Mountain View Memorial Park Seeing Stars Website Menu *** Free Newsletter! *** Seeing Stars Homepage Where the Stars Live Where the Stars Shop Restaurants Owned by Stars Restaurants Popular With Stars Where the Stars Play Schools of the Stars Churches of the Stars The Movie Studios The Television Studios Free Tickets to Studio Tapings Touring the Studios Where the Stars Died Where the Stars Are Buried (index) Where the Stars Are Buried Where the Stars Are Immortalized Hollywood Award Ceremonies Hotels of the Stars Hollywood Landmarks Hollywood Movie Palaces Special Celebrity Events News Hollywood Museums Stars On Stage Famous Hollywood Streets How YOU Can Be a Star!
