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...show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John Williams and The Call to the Nations by Mickey Hart, the drummer for The Grateful Dead. For the national ceremony that followed, the music went to a moving gospel version of The Star-Spangled Banner by the 300-strong Centennial Choir...
...mellow sounds of the Furthur Festival, a touring concert extravaganza that will visit 31 cities this summer. Furthur--a reference to the destination posted on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus--features former Dead guitarist Bob Weir's countrified-blues group Ratdog as well as former Dead drummer Mickey Hart's percussive world-beat ensemble Mystery Box. (The lineup also includes Hot Tuna and Los Lobos.) Crowds at the shows range from teens to 60-year-olds, but most are under 30. Weir makes clear his new band is not trying to raise the Dead, but "if [fans] came...
While Weir and Hart tour, former Dead bassist Phil Lesh is mixing a three-CD album of concerts taped in 1990. Lesh also says there are 12 new Dead songs, available in either rehearsal or incomplete studio versions, which may be released soon. A reunion of the remaining members is always a possibility. Says Lesh: "We will play together in some form, but nobody knows when." Except, perhaps, for Jerry. --C.J.F. Reported by Greg Fulton/Atlanta and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...Barcelona, Johnson has been on a mission to prove himself the fastest in the world in both the 200 and the 400. To the uninitiated, the 200/400 double sounds no more difficult than the more common 100/200 or 400/800 combinations. "The 200 and 400 are totally different animals," says Hart. If the 200 is a race that goes to the swiftest, the 400 goes to the smartest and strongest. Johnson, in fact, embodies those superlatives--his physique suggests a linebacker recently converted from wide receiver...
Most people would ask, Why Waco? Johnson asks, Why not? He could have succumbed to the allures of such track havens as ucla, but he prefers the serenity of Baylor and the counsel of Coach Hart. "To tell you the truth," says Johnson, "I never even thought about moving." There is also a practical side to training here--Waco in the summer is even stickier than Atlanta...