Word: concert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teacher, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The colorful, fantastic orchestration that Stravinsky brought to his folk song-inspired melodies was clearly derived from Rimsky-Korsakov. But the primitive, offbeat rhythmic drive he added was entirely his own. The result was a music never before heard in a theater or concert hall...
Having scored a breakthrough with their chart-topping 1965 album Rubber Soul--the record whose elegant lyrics and luminous melodies lifted them forever out of the world of simple teen idols and into the realm of art--the Beatles, exhausted, decided to stop touring. After a final concert in San Francisco in 1966, they would come together again as a group only in recording studios. But there they spun out ever more elaborate masterpieces: the tripped-out psychedelic special Revolver in 1966; the breathtaking (at the time) concept epic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967; the strangely...
Gill met his future wife Elizabeth at a community concert when they were both 15. Their relationship was "stormy off and on," Elizabeth Gill says, "but ultimately...
...look like you're having the most spectacular time of anybody's life, and nobody is better at it than SHARON STONE. Chairing a celebrity auction in Cannes for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, Stone hit the hammer for one lucky bidder, who won a mini-concert from Elton John and Ringo Starr--and, though not listed in the auction book, backup singing from Miramax head Harvey Weinstein. With Harvey as inspiration, Stone did what appeared to be the frug in a sequined dress that, seemingly against the actress's will, prevented her breasts from popping...
...Minneapolis-based business-development manager for electronics manufacturer Avnet thought he had about as much chance of doing that as he had of becoming Governor of Minnesota. Until last New Year's Eve, that is, when Graham, 49, and his wife Janet plunked themselves down beside King following a concert in Indian Wells, Calif. The couple spent 45 minutes chatting with the blues great, whose work Graham has adored for nearly 20 years. Along with the cherished face time, the Grahams also got round-trip airfare to California, hotel accommodations and tickets to the concert...