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...junior high, Jones took up what was to be one of his life-long loves, the trumpet, and sang in a gospel quartet. He made his local debut with a horn solo at a school Christmas pageant at the age of 12, his national debut as a trumpeter for Billie Holiday...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Quincy Jones has built a career by melding the music of four decades. | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

Finally, one of a pair of elk-horn chandeliers--which in Harvard's lore have been attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880--still hangs in this atrium...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: Departments Center in on Barker | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

According to building officials, its counterpart elk-horn chandelier now resides at the New York Harvard Club...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: Departments Center in on Barker | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham's talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he's probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears will be charmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: FRESH HEIRS | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...every activity is quite so earnest. In the middle of one night each summer, campers will be roused and taken to an unlighted soccer field, where they will be instructed to wait for the sound of a horn. When it sounds, a torch-bearing stranger, dressed in medieval garb, will arrive to blindfold the young Schuler and lead them to the Marchenwald (fairy-tale forest), where they will be treated to a medieval German play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPEAKING IN TONGUES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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