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...Ella Jane Van Horn Hagenbuch still wonders about the choices she faced during the war. While at Radcliffe, she participated in a secret government program for coding and de-coding messages. But when she asked to leave Radcliffe with her best friend and join the Red Cross in Europe, her father refused...
Outstanding Service Award: Ella and Dick Brennan (Commander's Palace, New Orleans...
...ELLA FITZGERALD CELEBRATES HER 75TH birthday this month, and it ought to be a state occasion. The received wisdom is that there has been no better jazz singer since Billie Holiday, but the trouble with such accolades is that they tend to become academic. A good introduction to the vibrancy, perpetual immediacy and -- bet on it -- the greatness of the birthday girl is Ella Fitzgerald First Lady of Song (Verve), a three-CD anthology from her peak years, the late '40s through the mid-'60s. There are 51 songs, 20 previously unavailable on CD and seven never released before, including...
...reluctant celebrity, however, more at home in musico-philosophical discussion than in talking about his personal life. Married to the Welsh violinist Jane Price since August 1991, he has a nine-month-old daughter, Ella Aneira, and lives in the elegant west Los Angeles district of Brentwood, as well as in London and Stockholm. His personal style runs toward Scandinavian informality; after a concert, he can't wait to shower, change into a sweater and jeans and kick back with a cold beer. He speaks five languages fluently. These days he uses mostly English and Swedish; it is his Finnish...
Killing policemen is a good thing -- that is the plain meaning of the words, and no "larger understanding" of black culture, the rage of the streets or anything else can explain it away. This is not Ella Fitzgerald telling a story in song. As in much of today's popular music, the line between performer and performance is purposely blurred. These are political sermonettes clearly intended to endorse the sentiments being expressed. Tracy Marrow (Ice-T) himself has said, "I scared the police, and they need to be scared." That seems clear...