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...prompted him to envision a reconciliation and integration of the two. At a lecture at Brandeis University in 1957, he coined the term "Third Stream." Influenced by compositions of Milhaud, Honneger and Krenek from the 1920s, as well as Ellington, Woody Herman and the more recent experiments of Stan Kenton, Schuller "realized that there was already a potential development and tradition, which could and should lead to the coming together of classical and jazz, which essentially were being segregated by the institutions of music. I call it Third Stream because I had a silly idea of the First and Second...

Author: By Anthony Cheung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Of Reminiscences and Reflections': 75 Years of Gunther Schuller | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...purchased from Kristensen in the 1980s, for example, helped neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas of New York University School of Medicine discover a new calcium channel involved in the communication between certain neurons, shedding new light on how the mind works. Another toxin extracted from Spider Pharm venom in 1995 by Kenton Swartz at the National Institutes of Health (named hanatoxin after Swartz's daughter) is being used to probe the function of proteins that are located on cellular membranes and have been implicated in diseases ranging from diabetes to epilepsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Creepy Cellar Of The Merchant Of Venom | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

Sports attorney Kenton Edelin, who represents New York Liberty star Rebecca Lobo, says Holdsclaw's endorsement options are "unlimited." Estimates of her earning potential, including marketing, range upward to $2 million to $3 million a year. Now, as Holdsclaw prepares to graduate, agents clamor in the wings, and executives from the pro teams pray and hold their breath. Nike and Adidas have already made their interests known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meek Shall Inherit | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

KAZUO ISHIGURO'S THE REMAINS of the Day (1989) is an astonishing novel in several regards. Its narrator, an aging and obsessively punctilious butler named Stevens, sets out in 1956 on a motoring trip; he wants to persuade Miss Kenton, a former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to come back and work for the house's new American owner. But as Stevens remembers the good old days, the 1930s, his dry reserve and matter-of-fact tone are threatened by a troubling perception: perhaps his devotion to Lord Darlington, later disgraced for having tried to appease the Nazis, was misplaced. Near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BAD DREAM | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

...Ballet premiered Merce Cunningham's innovative "Breakers" in Washington last year as part of the Kennedy Center's Ballet Commissioning Project. Opening the show, "Breakers" is a perfect example of a successful artistic whole coming together from many different elements. Cunningham's choreography, Driscoll's score and Mary Jean Kenton's scenic design were developed independently for the piece. Cunningham also choreographs computer-generated movement through experimention on a software package called "Lifeforms...

Author: By Clarissa A. Bonanno, | Title: 'American Festival I' Dances with Kick | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

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