Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high or too low. "The key is just to keep working every day with the same vigor that you had on Day One." Hanging over his desk, to keep the vigor up, is his going-away present from the guys in Boston: a poster of Vermeer's The Concert, the most valuable piece in the biggest, most confounding art heist in American history...
...Davis, 23. Her enchanting debut album, Blame It on Me (Elektra), has a pacific calm to it, undulating with soft folk, light jazz and warm R. and B., and yet, beneath the serene surface, one senses a depth, a power, precious things hidden away like sunken treasure ships. In concert one gets more of a glimpse: Davis has a sensuous, sliding alto, young and vibrant, but infused with old, smoky blues. She is a major new talent...
...problems of last Friday's concert might fairly be attributed to the inevitable period of adjustment with a new conductor, but all the things that went right need no further explanation. The MSO continues...
...trip to New York, he visits his best friend Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), a performance artist stricken with AIDS, gets separated from his production team and somehow ends up stranded in the city with Karen (Nastassja Kinski), a beautiful rocket scientist (you heard me). After going to a Beethoven concert, flirting shamelessly at a jazz club and escaping a nearly fatal mugging, Karen and Max, surprise, surprise, end up in bed together. Snipes returns home emotionally shaken and begins to question the stability of his marriage and the value of his work. A year passes, and Snipes returns...
...with receptive crowds in three major cities, and chart the differences in attitudes in each locale. In Seattle, where she's become almost as much of a fixture as she is in Boston, she's referred to on the radio as "Seattle's own Mary Lou Lord," and her concert audiences feature "couples in raincoats" who are decidedly more relaxed than Boston crowds. She's most amazed, though at the friendliness of the people who stop to listen to her on the Santa Monica Promenade. "The happy uppity sunshine people," as she calls them, tend to say, "Dude...