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...Rican ex-soprano whose voice (since giving birth to triplets) has darkened to a take-no-prisoners mezzo. In the role of the doomed warrior Radames, all-American tenor ``Tex Stolto'' can't seem to resist handing out glossy photos of himself. And as Ramfis, the high priest, Russian bass ``Boris Pistoff'' doffs his headdress to reveal himself as a Conehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALSETTOS AND FALSIES | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

While some other well-known schools have been embarrassed because of gifts they later regretted, notably Yale with its much-publicized donation from the Bass brothers for Western studies. Harvard has been careful to avoid any such public fiascoes...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Squeezing Dollars From Alums | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...earliest recordings that will be broadcast during the orgy, those from the period 1955-1960, Cecil Taylor sounds approximately like a jazz pianist on acid. He performs with the standard format of a jazz combo: piano, bass, drums, and a hornman, in this case, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. The group records several versions of tunes from the standard jazz repertoire. Hearing Taylor perform the Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn composition "Johnny Come Lately" has almost the shock value that hearing Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star Spangled Banner" must have had ten years later. The familiar jazzman's repertoire turns...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: Passionate Taylor Grooves | 1/20/1995 | See Source »

...whose voice (since she gave birth to triplets) has darkened to a take-no-prisoners mezzo. In the role of the doomed warrior Radames, all-American tenor "Tex Stolto" can't seem to resist handing out 8-by-10 glossies of himself. And as Ramfis, the high priest, Russian bass "Boris Pistoff" doffs his headdress to reveal himself as a Conehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Falsettos and Falsies | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

Although logic might be an insidious invention of Western Civilization, we should employ it here. Why on earth would such a popular program be limited in size? Obviously, there are not enough faculty to teach courses in Western Civilization. Yet Bass's gift was designed specifically to remedy this very problem...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: The Wild West | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

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