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Ragtime Rhythms. Born in Danbury, Conn. Ives got his early musical training from his father, who was a bandmaster in General Grant's army.* The elder Ives was an inveterate experimenter with sound: to get new group effects he would place part of his band on the village green in Danbury, part in a church steeple, and the rest on the roof of a house on Main Street, inviting them all to play together. By the time young Charles Ives got to Yale, he was already shocking his instructors with his own experiments on weird harmonies and erratic rhythms...
...Bhumibol's father was not king, his uncle was. When Uncle Prajadhipok abdicated, Bhumibol's bachelor elder brother succeeded; Bhumibol became king when his brother died in 1946. All clear...
Battle to Breathe. Che's father, Architect Ernesto Rafael Guevara Lynch, also sees some humor in the fact of his son's control of fiscal Cuba. Sitting recently in his Buenos Aires office, the elder Guevara chuckled that "nobody was more surprised than I when I heard my son was managing the Cuban economy. Any business we Guevaras put money into has always been a failure...
...Tombstone years were primarily a time of waiting and worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at the edge of the Mexican quarter with the other Earp women-Bessie, wife of Jim Earp, a half brother; Wyatt's wife Mattie; and "Big Nose" Kate Elder, the Kansas prostitute who married an Earp sidekick, "Doc" Holliday-Allie sewed, cooked, gossiped and quarreled. Time and again, Allie and Mattie got tired of being cooped up while the men were on the town. Once they decided to explore the place themselves, and were promptly picked up. As Allie...
Booming Voice. In a career that spanned more than a quarter-century, Tibbett ranged through more than 70 roles. He was never a leading Wagnerian, instead concentrated on the great baritone roles of the Italian repertory: lago in Otello, the elder Germont in Traviata, Scarpia in Tosca, Amonasro in A'ida. For Tibbett the Met scheduled rarely performed operas such as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and it was Tibbett, a longtime champion of English-language opera, who created the baritone roles in such contemporary American operas as Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman and Peter...