Word: davises
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Ogene Davis of Atlanta faithfully attended a black church through high school but became deeply troubled that "good" Christians could tolerate a socially and racially unjust world. "Christianity was not working for blacks," he concluded. Karima Omar Kamouneh (nee Virginia Marston) of Burbank, Calif., was raised by devout Episcopalians but...
Would J.R. Ewing submit quietly to being taken over? No way, but the ( financially troubled TV studio that created him, Lorimar-Telepictures, may soon accept that fate. Lorimar, which produces Dallas and Knots Landing, has stumbled badly after expanding too fast into areas beyond its ken, including feature films (among...
"Sometimes I forget when I'm notating that not everybody hears the music the way I do," says Davis, 37. But hearing it they are these days, and cheering it as well. The Manhattan-based composer is enjoying acclaim for the recent premieres of his two latest works: the concerto...
He would, in other words, seem to embody the notion of a crossover artist. With his jazz background, he calls up visions of the Third Stream, that brief confluence of jazz and classical music long thought dried up. In works like Black, Brown and Beige, Duke Ellington bravely but cautiously...
As such, he represents one of the salient trends in modern American music, the fusion of the pop vernacular with the mainstream classical tradition. He is not alone: Rock Musician Glenn Branca writes raucous symphonies for electric guitars, and the Chinese-American Lucia Hwong brings a cross-cultural sensibility to...