Word: balladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late the previous night at Madison Square Garden with none other than the Jerry Garcia Band. But within a few minutes Murray had assembled his saxophone and begun to lead the musicians away. The two men led the group through various exercises, including Fox's compositions, the Thelonious Monk ballad " `Round Midnight, " and the Charlie Parker blues "Billie's Bounce." There was plenty of advice for the student musicians, sometimes technical, but more often philosophical. Fox advised, "Break all the rules, and then gradually...refine that expression...," while Murray was more simple and to the point, "Let's get lost...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. An Evening with Allison Anders at 7 p.m. and "Gas, Food, Lodging" at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12. "The Ballad of Little Jo" at 1, 3:15, 5:30 and 7:45 on Saturday, Nov. 13. "The Gift" at 10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12 and Saturday, Nov. 13. Starring Katharine Hepburn: "Sylvia Scarlett" at 4:05 and 7:35 and "Christopher Strong" at 2:30, 6 and 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14. Film Noir: "Lady from Shanghai" at 4 and 7:55 and "Gilda...
WHRB: You are able to sing the lyrics to every song by Love Battery. If you're a rising star, you know the words to the lyrics of every ballad by the Hard Ons, as well...
...classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that she has Oldtimer's disease, or at least Part-timer's ("Did I sing the ballad yet? Was it wonderful?"). She also purports to worry about sullying her "newfound stature." When her backup trio, "the politically correct Harlettes," starts a striptease in the home of the world-famed Christmas show, Bette goes frantic: "Girls, this is Radio City! They have a manger backstage...
Even during the few slower numbers that Joel interspersed throughout the performance, he managed to maintain the emotionally charged energy of the rest of the show. "Lullaby," off the new album, seems destined to be a classic, and the choice to segue directly from the slower moving ballad to his new single, "A River of Dreams," enabled him to get the crowd swaying to its compulsive beat without loss of momentum...