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...made by anyone making a theme-park trek across Tennessee. Start at Opryland. "If you're going to be a theme park in Nashville," says Park Flack Tom Adkinson, "you'd better be about music." But not just country music: Opryland's 120 acres embrace doo-wop and Duke Ellington in as many as a dozen simultaneous stage shows. Then it's 20 miles northeast to Hendersonville and a stop at Twitty City, the monument Country Star Conway Twitty has built to himself, including a guided tour conducted by a giant mechanical Twitty Bird. (Just down the road is Johnny...
...zoomed from fourth place to first on the strength of a bravura jitterbugging performance to Gershwin and the blues. Thomas "just got inspired" after watching Boitano, and the next night, instead of playing it safe to protect a slight lead, she came on strong to a combination of Duke Ellington and ballet music in a program that contained four triple jumps, including a tricky triple-double toe-loop combination. "I don't believe it," said a tearful Thomas, who is the first black world champion ever in skating...
...projects a captivating, gentle beauty. She is the undisputed best-dressed concert performer in the business, appearing on stage adorned in gowns created by her friend Ter-Arutunian, who is better known as a designer of opera, ballet and theater costumes and sets. For a PBS special on Duke Ellington he fashioned a sinuous red number that suited the song Creole Love Call; for her Carnegie Hall performance of Semele, based on a mythological subject, he produced a one-shoulder dress that suggested a Grecian column. "In a live performance, who doesn't listen with their eyes as well...
...cross-pollination creates a lively cultural blend. In Juarez, a popular hangout is the Kentucky Club, where mostly Mexican patrons select from such jukebox favorites as Duke Ellington and Julio Iglesias. Across the river in El Paso, Mexican teenagers from Juarez buy heavy metal rock LPs from Star Records, a music shop, since such disks are scarce in their city...
...project seeks to blend music, poetry and prose into a "fusion" of jazz aiming to explore what Jazz (with a capital 3) as a medium expresses, and what a could potentially express. Using the music of Ellington. Gillespie, Waller, Monk and other greats coupled with selections from both Black and white authors. Mood Indigo II examines the meaning and the masters of Jazz in paying homage to the must distinctive origins and its fascinating evolution into a sophisticated cross-cultural genre, the performers (also both Black and White) not the "the Jazz transceds race." The message gets a little heavy...