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...cause of this remarkable hilarity? Ken Martin, 69, is fairly sure it's his dancing. The Mackay Choral Society is rehearsing Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers, and "I can't dance," admits the retired transport-firm manager and future Duke of Plaza-Toro. The whole choir is laughing, "but it's me who's getting it right," he says. "The rest of them are wrong...
...doing an improvised dance routine to demonstrate rhythm and emphasis. "We leave you with feelings of plea-sure," he sings, with a sideways jerk of the hips. "Rehearsals are always fun," says accountant Jeanette Oberg, 47, who has a small solo part as Giulia, a peasant girl. "The choir members are always on the alert for anything that can be turned into a joke...
...With loving and laughing, And quipping and quaffing, We're happy as happy can be. "It's like a family," says Oberg, who joined the choir two years ago. "You're dealing with people you'd never normally have contact with, and you grow really fond of them. I can see why some people have been in the choir for years and years. You work together to achieve something, and then you get that burst of applause and you feel enormous pride...
...President gestured toward the journalists sweating nearby. "Record that, please," he joked. Then, in a surprise highlight to the trip, the President and First Lady, joined by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, tapped and swayed along as two dozen high-pitched singers in the Vienna Boys' Choir, which dates to 1498, performed a medley that included Johann Strauss's "On the Beautiful Blue Danube." At least for the moment, George W. Bush looked happy to be in Europe...
DIED. Billy Preston, 59, effervescent master R&B keyboardist of the '60s and '70s, later derailed by struggles with alcohol abuse and cocaine addiction; after a long battle with kidney disease that had left him in a coma since November; in Scottsdale, Ariz. At age 7, Preston started directing choir sessions at his Los Angeles church before impressing larger audiences with such hits as Nothing from Nothing and Will It Go Round in Circles? Yet to such peers as Bob Dylan and the Beatles, the gregarious, gospel-influenced virtuoso, who also wrote You Are So Beautiful for Joe Cocker...