Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After thoughts of art come the practical things in life. As soon as he has learned to drive, Kissin plans to get a car. A girlfriend may take longer; currently he travels with his mother and his teacher. Relaxation takes the form of playing the rags of Scott Joplin and reading Pushkin and Tolstoy. He rejects the notion that he is still too young to understand the depths of his art. "For me, it's natural," he says. "Please don't take this as being immodest, but with my potential, I could have already done more than I have." Given...
Having fled over the Wall in 1976, Nina Hagen discovered the brave new world of punk music. Hagen, 35, learned her craft by singing along to tapes of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important...
...omnivore," he says. He fed on the Beatles, for example, and what have been called "the song jewelers": Gershwin, Kern, Berlin. "I liked this music. It satisfied something." He also discovered ragtime and helped spearhead its revival in the 1970s with a nonchalantly elegant recording of rags by Joplin, Lamb, Scott and himself. More important, he discovered mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and began accompanying her around the country in dear old ditties like Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May? They married in 1975, and still give nearly 50 concerts a year. "Performing this stuff with...