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...series captures rare voices from the past, as in a 1910 recording of the Fisk Jubilee Quartet or a 1935 recording of a South African choir that shows the influence of African-American music worldwide. More recent performers are featured as well, including the Soul Stirrers, the Staple Singers, Jessye Norman, Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland, all the way up to such contemporary neo-gospel acts as BeBe and CeCe Winans...
...Bois, who was born in 1868, received an A.B.from Fisk University and, at the age of 20, becamethe seventh African American to attend HarvardCollege. He was the first Black student to receivea Ph.D from Harvard...
...wizardly playing combined to make him music's first superstar, Niccolo Paganini was also a superb guitarist. The instrument figured in all his published work during his lifetime except his magnum opus, the ferociously demanding 24 Caprices for solo violin. It seems just, then, that the guitar virtuoso ELIOT FISK has recorded his own transcriptions of the pieces (MusicMasters Classics). What amazes throughout is Fisk's ingenuity in finding the equivalents of, say, legato and ricocheted bowing on his plucked instrument, and his dexterity in executing them with such panache. This recording will dazzle violinists and daunt guitarists...
...hours I walked alone, and then, at 12:11, the race caught up to me. At the seven mile mark in Framingham the wheelchair leader passed me going about thirteen miles per hour. The rest of the day I fell further and further behind while I covered ground. At Fisk Pond in Natick, the elite runners tracked by. Fisk Pond is at the 15K point, where the elite runners have their private water bottles, each marked up in some distinctive manner. The squeeze bottles are full of brown, blue, red, green fluids and masked in different colors of tape...
With the Green Monster in left and a notoriously close foul pole (please see: Carlton Fisk, 1975) in right field, Fenway has always been known as a hitter's park...