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...DIED. SHIRLEY HORN, 71, smoky-voiced jazz diva famous for her elegant, achingly slow renditions of songs that she said "painted a picture"; in Washington. After getting her start opening for Miles Davis, Horn made records and played clubs around her native Washington, then largely retreated to spend time with her family. A shining comeback in the late 1980s led to numerous honors, a Grammy, and a popular 1991 album You Won't Forget Me, featuring a cameo from Davis, her lifelong champion, recorded shortly before he died...
DIED. SHIRLEY HORN, 71, smoky-voiced jazz diva famous for her elegant, achingly slow renditions of songs that she said "painted a picture"; in Washington. After getting her start opening for Miles Davis, Horn made records and played clubs around her native Washington, then largely retreated to family life. A shining comeback in the late 1980s, when she signed with Verve, led to numerous honors, a Grammy and a popular 1991 album, You Won't Forget Me, that featured a cameo from Davis, her lifelong champion, recorded shortly before he died...
...Baaack! My response to time's "10 Questions" interview with ex-convict Martha Stewart, whom you described as "the indomitable domestic diva" [Sept. 19], is simply this: crime does pay. Mary Ingram Asheville, North Carolina...
...solo pianist: all alone with no one to play with. No orchestras, no choruses. When they are given the chance to perform with others, they can be trampled—as “accompanists,” they are roped into playing second-rate orchestral reductions with diva violinists and sopranos. Fortunately, the Harvard Piano Society (HPS), founded in 2000, addresses this dilemma. One of Harvard’s most inclusive music groups, it was originally created as a kind of meeting place for piano-types. Of course, the HPS is more than a musical dating service. It provides...
...Baaack! My response to TIME's "10 Questions" interview with ex-convict Martha Stewart, whom you described as "the indomitable domestic diva" [Sept. 19], is simply this: crime does pay. Mary Ingram Asheville, North Carolina...