Word: fusions
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...honor the Silk Road’s legacy of fusion among Eastern and Western cultures, Ma and a rotating group of musicians from around the world play traditional and original music in concert and host educational events. They’ve recorded three albums and traveled from Manhattan to Kyrgyzstan. But according to SRP Chief Executive Officer Laura Freid, the organization agreed last year on the need to “look for a new intellectual home?...
...captain of the Harvard Asian-American Dance Troupe, who was seated with the SRP’s Programs Coordinator, found the organization’s attempts at fusion between past and present inspiring. “Maybe this is far-fetched,” says Luo, “but we’d really like to dance to some of their music.” However, she adds that she “didn’t get a chance to find out to what extent that would be possible...
...shouldn’t be too surprising that no one is too sure about the form that their five-year residency at Harvard will take. Shelemay felt the situation could be summed up in a quotation from late composer Lou Harrison, known for his fusion of Eastern and Western styles: “Cherish the hybrids—they’re all we?...
...DIED. CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN, 81, cowboy-hatted roots guitarist and fiddler who continually protested against being labeled a bluesman, insisting that his fusion of jazz, country, R&B and Cajun defied categorization; in Orange, Texas. He died 10 days after evacuating his home in Slidell, Louisiana, which housed half a century of memorabilia, and was razed by Hurricane Katrina. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in 1949 at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped on stage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes from customers," he boasted...
...also taking on distinct phenomenological proportions. Even in Arizona, in the earliest stages, with Bono's voice raggedy from overrehearsing and with the band searching for a solid connection with both the audience and one another, there was a final fusion of performer and spectator that is one mark of great rock 'n' roll. Some of the songs, especially earlier efforts, can get tongue-tied by the unwieldy ambition of their lyrics and the discursiveness of the melody line. The audience shares a devotional intensity, however, that anchors the concert as a whole experience even when the tunes range free...