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...troupe. Many were spare, experimental works (including The One Hundreds, which begins with two dancers performing 100 different moves of precisely 11 seconds each and ends with 100 people doing all of them at the same time). But she also choreographed pieces to the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton. When she was working on Deuce Coupe for the Joffrey Ballet, some company members refused to perform it. "They were classical artists and had their own definitions about what art needed to be," she says...
...skeptical of the slight, bespectacled twelve-year-old in short pants, union card or no union card. ''Keep away from the instruments, kid!'' they shouted. ''Get off the boat!'' Undaunted, the lad took out his horn and started to play. Case closed: two minutes later, Benny Goodman had joined Bix Beiderbecke's band. From that humble dockside audition grew the career of one of the century's most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons. It was Benny who set the teenagers of the 1930s stomping at the Savoy and sing, sing, singing with his soaring, exhilarating swing music...
...things for fun. I still remember, from seeing the film 51 years ago, a scene where Hammer picks up a man's beloved old Caruso record and snaps it in two. (The same year I'd seen Blackboard Jungle, where the vicious high-school punks smash a teacher's Bix Beiderbecke records. So I knew Mike was a bad guy.) The music plays up his thug character as well. When Mike shows up in a doorway, we hear the clanging chords that usually greet the first appearance of a monster. This isn't a private eye film...
DeGreeff came to Harvard as a first-year in Greenough in 1985. After graduation, he returned as a proctor to Greenough, where he currently lives with his wife Joyce, director of the First-Year Urban Program, son Jeremiah and Chesapeake Bay retriever Bix...
...Matt DeGreeff, and Joyce, and Bix, and more recently Jeremiah, are such a part of the College that it’s hard to imagine the Yard without them,” Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley “Ibby” Nathans wrote in an e-mail...