Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Said's amateur passion, his violon d'Ingres, is music. He is an accomplished pianist; in April he gave duet recitals in New York and Washington with the Lebanese pianist Diana Takieddine. For some years he wrote music criticism for The Nation, and in 1991 he published a collection of his essays, Musical Elaborations. Today, afflicted by leukemia and acutely aware of the shortness of life, he is thinking of writing "a memoir of my pre-political life, which ended in 1967. What a strange world I grew up in! -- a vanished world now. It's very hard even...
Across the Borderline is, indeed, like a more contemporary and personalized version of Nelson's smash album of pop standards, Stardust -- a songbook that Nelson transforms into something as intimate as a diary. Stardust pointed the way to some dire aesthetic directions: if only its duet with Julio Iglesias could be expunged from the collective pop consciousness without doing damage to Nelson's beleaguered bank account. But with a little luck, Across the Borderline will fix him for good right where he belongs, among the best of American music. If still really is still moving to him, then...
...dancers proceeded to disregard any such limitations. Their form of dance overcomes barriers of sociology and physiology, ignoring predefined gender roles and focusing wholly on the integrity of the movement. The company most effectively demonstrated this ideal in their performance of the first movement of "Soon," a duet created by Jones. The movement was performed three consecutive times by the three different couples: the first, a man and a women; the second, two women; and the third...
...even more unfortunate that in the end the choreographer's imagination is defeated by Tchaikovsky. In the second act the music expands opulently, demanding matching grandeur onstage. But Morris wastes the grand pas de deux on a routine group number and sets the explosive coda as a small- scale duet for Marie, the heroine, and the Nutcracker Prince. It's a bad letdown...
...riffs. Trout, which despite its ambiguous title is a hymn of praise for sex education in public schools, is set to a booming, get-up-out-of-your-se at hip-hop drum rhythm, with guitars and harmonica added for good measure. On this track Cherry does a snappy duet with R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe, who manages not to embarrass himself while rapping...