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...first standards album since 1991 (despite the title, it's only his fourth overall). After ambitious but sometimes strained projects like last year's 3-CD recording of his Pulitzer-prizewinning oratorio, Blood on the Fields, and a jazz reworking of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat with which Marsalis was touring the country the past two weeks, it's a relief to hear him relaxed and just playing for a change. With his unrivaled command of tone and phrasing, his Louis Armstrong-like ability to set up a sustained note so that it hits a dramatic sweet spot, Marsalis...
...other eight trustees--who include former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, former University of Chicago president and current Harvard Fellow Hanna H. Gray, and former Du Pont CEO Irving S. Shapiro--discussed the appointment of a ninth trustee and formally elected Knowles last week...
Animal Kingdom boasts other shows: a zesty Jungle Book presentation, with gaily colored puppets; and a Festival of the Lion King (the fourth stage show Disney has spun off from its 1994 animated smash) that blends audience participation with tumbling, stilt-walking, Cirque du Soleil-style big-topicality. In Dinoland U.S.A. there's a dinosaur thrill ride, Countdown to Extinction, that uses the technology of the popular Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland, California. But the best spectacles are the ones visitors create, discover or stumble into on their...
...poverty, overpopulation and the lack of attention to children. She correctly foresaw racism as the nation's major challenge, conducted surveys that countered stereotypes regarding the black community and birth control, and established clinics in the rural South with the help of such African-American leaders as W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary McLeod Bethune...
Unwound's stage presence symbolized this psychological isolation from peers as the trend du jour. Mop-headed, slackjawed, distant and sedated, Trosper and bassist Vern Rumsey slumped over themselves as they aimlessly strummed away in their emotional vacuum. Remaining unresponsive to their fans, the pair rarely deviated from a tired routine...