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...also a budding classical composer. Last year he was awarded the prestigious Hugh F. MacColl Prize for composition by the Department of Music, and his original piece, “Sonatina,” won the Bach Society Orchestra competition. Come next fall, Wang will pack up his keyboard and head south to Yale, where he plans to study for a Master’s degree in music. Yet the road to New Haven has been anything but straight for this young man of many musical hats. During his four years at Harvard, Wang has engaged music of multiple genres...
They play in a lonely driveway under a forlorn trumpet and two drums, this silent band. At a yellowed keyboard markered with “Katrina Band of New Orleans,” a gorilla plays forever, an empty bottle of Bacardi in his lap. Next to the pianist, a monster hunches over a guitar, ignoring the empty wine bottle nearby.The lead singer, a mannequin with a gray wig, sings at a rusty microphone. David L. Fountain, 54, calls this wooden statue his wife. Without her, Fountain would have been a bachelor all his life, he says...
...lucky meeting. Luny was a self-taught drum-machine prodigy; Tunes was a skilled keyboard player, working on hip-hop-influenced instrumentals in a small studio he’d set up in a closet at his family’s home. Soon the friends were talking about combining their skills and the far-off, thrilling prospect of stardom...
...thing Prince has recorded in a decade. And what would a Prince record be without a salacious slow-jam for your hook-up mixtape? “Incense and Candles” fits the bill nicely. Prince and a female accompanist exchange sexy bon mots over a simple keyboard melody as the track builds to its climax: Prince’s spoken word interlude, in which he describes in graphic detail how he plans to satisfy his partner’s…cravings. The song is an erotic on tour de force on par with “Darling...
...soup like Mom or eggplant like Emeril Lagasse?often requires more guidance than a classic cookbook can provide. Now, rather than shell out for lessons, you can hop online and learn to slice, spice and saut? like a cordon bleu. Just remember not to spill your b?chamel on the keyboard...