Word: drum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping the club owners passably honest, locking himself in his motel room to go over the accounting ledgers. So now he spent freely to turn his concerts into spectacles, building elaborate stage sets with erupting volcanoes and such. He also tightened up the music and hired the Trinidadian steel-drum virtuoso Robert Greenidge. Eventually he brought in clowns on stilts and a storyteller for the children and sent bands into the parking lot to play for the fans. He launched a newsletter and later a website to sell his merchandise and was among the first stars to land a corporate...
...blue-groove vocalists (it includes Skye Edwards of Morcheeba and Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl), who use the delivery and seductive lilt of jazz to bring warmth to chilly avant-garde pop. Esthero's debut with her co-writer and producer, Doc (Martin McKinney), weaves hip-hop, drum and bass, funk and ska into tunes full of emotional intensity. Doc controls this array as a pointillist might, coloring each song with an unusual palette of detail--the strum of a harp here, the sigh of a trumpet there--and arranges it all into a seamless backdrop. In this...
Some seasons, just being Irish seems curse enough, and never more so than in Northern Ireland's annual marching season, when Protestant pride expresses itself in drum-banging celebration of Catholic defeat. Down the streets of Belfast, through such villages as Drumcree, the brethren of the Orange Order must go each July, drums pounding, flutes trilling out martial tunes, banners fluttering portraits of William of Orange triumphing over the Catholics at the Battle of the Boyne 308 years...
What a birthday bash for those 148 men and women in flag-red coats and 23 gleaming brass buttons who make up America's most historic ensemble! President John Adams started it all when he signed the law creating the Marine Corps in 1798, including "a drum major, a fife major, and 32 drums and fifes." From that day Presidents demanded that the band be on hand to grace their moments of triumph and tragedy. And the band got bigger and better. Recently 35 euphonium players auditioned for one position, and all of them were turned down. Only the best...
...Northern Ireland Secretary," says Hillenbrand. "It's a conflict of two rights: The right to march and the right to have peace and quiet." The key to any agreement may turn out to be common courtesy. "Perhaps the Orange will march, but play down the fife-and-drum aspect, or march without banners," he says. But Hillenbrand warns that "this is the make-or-break weekend." Sunday is the anniversary of the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over the Catholic King James II in 1690 -- which leaves both sides until then to defuse the bomb that...