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...course, journalistic thoroughness—prevents me from doing so. Traveling on Sunday, we miss the famed Chocolate Bar—an unlimited smorgasbord of chocolate desserts offered every Saturday for $23 a pop. Instead, we choose from the still-extensive dessert bar of the Sunday Jazz Brunch: fresh-made ice cream, chocolate mousse in martini glasses and chocolate pecan pie are but a few of the choices. As Chef Le Pet Omaine has predicted, we have indeed become couchons (pigs). The taste of sugar is starting to make me slightly sick, but my brain shuts down most thought processes...
...taken a lesson with the French composer Darius Milhaud. When I got home, I continued to study with him on the G.I. Bill at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. He knew I wanted to write oratorios and cantatas, but he also said I should not give up jazz. He said, "Jazz is the most American art form. It's too late for you to have a European classical background. But you'll do it on your...
...right. After years of writing and performing jazz, I wrote my first oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness, when I was in my 40s. I'm better known for my jazz improvisations, but I have written many other religious works and continue to perform them around the world...
...move on almost immediately. Public opinion deemed Timberlake’s cursory initial apology sufficient; Jackson was forced to issue repeated statements of regret, first in print and later in a plaintive televised version. She was barred from last Sunday’s Grammy Awards; he performed with jazz legend Arturo Sandoval. “Saturday Night Live” compared Jackson to her brother Michael, an accused pedophile; Timberlake, who tore off her clothing, was portrayed in the skit as the naive victim...
...Enfant et les Sortileges” is the story of the nocturnal revenge of toys and animals against a naughty child. Both pieces are set to exquisite music: Stravinsky’s subtle dissonances and meters, and Ravel’s 1920’s jazz and ragtime influence...