Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From 'Sesame Street' to Elmo." Yes, the furry red symbol of this past holiday season had, in the mind of the festival's copy writers, come beyond his "Sesame Street" roots to the point where he was something to contrast with his colleagues, like (as the description continues) "a jazz orchestra to a gospel choir...
Slatkin, a baseball fan since childhood whose greatest sacrifice in moving to Washington has been giving up his St. Louis Cardinals season tickets, pointedly devoted his entire opening concert to music by such American composers as Bernstein, Howard Hanson and the Washington-born jazz icon Duke Ellington. "Because you are called the National Symphony," he says, "you have an obligation, not just out of a sense of duty but out of real love, to present the music of your own country. We should be thinking of our own repertoire in the same way that the Austrians view Mozart...
...years ago, Gary Larson's Tales from the Far Side, was not a hit, but he is currently working on another. "In some ways my retirement backfired," he says. "I'm working harder than I ever did." He is also busy writing a children's book and studying jazz guitar. The bad news for fans: "I can't conceive of ever going back to The Far Side. It feels like something that had its moment." But there is consolation: "They just discovered 1,200 of my really early cartoons that haven't been republished...My last book was called Last...
...claim this face, so sensitive, masculine and alert, but it took a decade or more for him to achieve true Marcellosity. In Visconti's rapturous White Nights (1957), Mastroianni spent the whole movie pleading fruitlessly for Maria Schell's love. To impress her he does a spaz-jazz dance, hilarious in its frantic clumsiness. At the end he walks off like Chaplin, alone into the snowy dawn...
...Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea The Mozart Sessions (Sony Classical). The classical-music industry is suffering from a dearth of star performers--so along comes McFerrin, famed for his otherworldly vocalese and infectious charm. He and jazz pianist Corea turn in original, joyous performances of the familiar A major and D minor piano concertos with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra...