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...technique sounds simple, but it took Turner 15 years to perfect. "A friend of mine gave me a piece by Mozart for glass and it intrigued me," he explained. He began by playing chord accompaniments, and progressed to solo performances about six years...
...previous albums, Bowie worked with the intense Art Rock Composer Brian Eno (Ambient 1: Music for Airports). Boys Keep Swinging mixed Bowie's band with instruments they did not normally play. Guitarist Carlos Alomar, for example, found himself playing drums. Bowie then took the chord changes from Boys Keep Swinging, played them at nearly half speed and came up with a romantic ballad, Fantastic Voyage. Bowie's classic raver for Mott the Hoople, All the Young Dudes, was played backward and turned into Move...
...circle of friends. Through Robert we meet his 10 close friends and his three girlfriends Marta (Lori Glaser), Kathy (Jeanne Jones) and April (Eileen McNamara). And whether the actor are singing solos duets like Robert and April in "Barcelona," or grand ensemble efforts, they strike a deep resonant chord as their clearly enunciated works hit home...
According to Heilbut's debatable thesis, after Pearl Harbor the German Americans were thought of as just one more group of aliens. After World War II, the McCarthy period seemed to strike an ominous and familiar chord. Mann, who had found in California his Eden, came to dismiss it as "an artificial paradise," America as a "soulless soil." Einstein complained that Americans, shortchanging their idealism, were not American enough. Psychologist Erik Erikson once wrote that only in the U.S. could Freud's prescription for human dignity, Lieben und Arbeiten (love and work), be realized. But he became "increasingly...
Then why all of a sudden is Bob Reich such a hot property? According to a Hart issues staffer, "Industrial and trade policy is central to the current policy debate and his book has hit a responsive chord...