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When Joyce Hatto died last June at the age of 77, the classical music world mourned the loss, it thought, of one of its most talented, and reclusive, pianists. Obituaries reported that the musician retreated from concert recitals after being diagnosed with cancer in the early 1970s but, over the next 30 years, Hatto recorded more than 100 CDs of virtuoso performances in a private studio near her home in Royston, England. The recordings, published by her husband William Barrington-Coupe's small Concert Artist label, wowed critics, one of whom called Hatto in 2005 the "greatest living pianist that...
...late 1990s shooting deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. demonstrated, the rap life can be a dangerous existence. But being a rapper in Gaza? Now that presents some unique hazards. At a concert by the Palestinian Rapperz (PR) last summer, Islamic youths, outraged by the group's arm thrusts and crotch grabs, rushed onstage and beat up its four members. Soon after, a Palestinian M.C. known as Sompol was also assailed for immorality. He was kidnapped midperformance and let go three hours later, after a warning at gunpoint to stop bringing un-Islamic Western behavior into Gaza...
...Burbank, Calif. As a jazz-obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later she wrote a famous, widely hailed response to a Down Beat magazine article that had detailed the inferiority of the fairer sex. Her commentary cemented her reputation as an influential advocate...
...senior year of high school, is so busy with auditions and SATs that she spends what little free time she has sleeping. “About three hours a day,” she says. “Usually, I’m doing homework, sleeping, or playing in concerts.” And as for a social life, she says, laughing, “I don’t know what even means a ‘social life’ in English. But I think I don’t have a social life...
...divide over North Korea. "I don't agree with people who argue that Japan is being left behind [by the U.S.]," says a senior Japanese official. Certainly the American and Japanese militaries are only growing closer, as Japan sheds its postwar pacifism and asserts itself more vigorously in concert with the U.S. But any alliance needs shared goals to exist, and on the most pressing security issue in east Asia - North Korea - Japan and the U.S. may be discovering that even the best of friends sometimes have their differences...