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...Hall, she follows a sexy, freewheeling Body and Soul with a heart-riving version of Strange Fruit in which her voice cracks on the final note. By 1957, when she appears at the Newport Jazz Festival, her voice is slurred, and she has problems not only keeping up with accompanist Mal Waldron but even catching her breath...
...this! I can be someone!") -- but so is a lot of flavorful, crisply told detail. The young singer goes on the road as part of a quartet put together by Major Bowes; picks up work in a club where he has to wheel his own piano accompanist around the room; is discovered by bandleader Harry James but soon jumps to Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, where he becomes a star...
Fall Festival of One-Act Plays. Accompanist for a Seduction, The Man Behind the Moose and Fast Food on Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. Taking Five, Ten Minutes and Deliver the Blow on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St., Harvard Square. $8. Call 547-6789 for more information...
...liberals in Los Angeles, learned it was to be closed and sold to a private developer, they did what comes naturally: organize, protest and stonewall. Founded in 1924 by the First Unitarian Church, Sunset Hall had housed such prominent figures as anti- McCarthy activist Rose Chernin and Waldemar Hille, accompanist to Paul Robeson. The remaining nine residents threatened to stage a noisy demonstration outside Sunset Hall on the day it closed...
Meanwhile, Elkies' musicial compositions have been published, performed professionally and awarded several major prizes. His reputation as a gifted modern composer has advanced throughout New England and beyond. A bass-baritone and piano accompanist for Harvard Glee Club, he continues to compose music under the direction of Rosen Professor of Music Leon Kirchner...