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Along with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, the legendary tenor saxophonist Lester Young is considered one of the seminal figures in the history of jazz. From his first recorded solo in 1936 through his small group sessions with Billie Holiday and his memorable stint with the Count Basie Orchestra, Young (known as "Pres," short for "President of the Tenor Saxophone") created some of the most memorable recordings in American music. Douglas Henry Daniels, a professor of History and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has spent more than two decades investigating the legend of Lester...
...inexperience shows. While the book is impressively researched and lavishly documented (Daniels has tracked down many previously untapped sources among Young's relatives and fellow musicians), it feels curiously inert, without any of the narrative drive you would expect in a biography of as vivid a figure as Lester Young. And while the author shows great enthusiasm for highlighting the context of Young's life (with interpolated essays on everything from the African American oral tradition to the history of marijuana), when it comes to narrating that life, Daniels sometimes gives the impression that he's less than interested...
Interpreting Macbeth and the role of witchcraft in the play are subjects that were highlighted in a lecture and discussion evented hosted by Hyperion this past Tuesday. The event featured Shakespearean scholar and Hyperion faculty advisor Marjorie Garber, American Repertory Theatre Dramaturg and Associate Artistic Director Gideon Lester, as well as Cozzens...
...Lester, speaking from a dramaturgical perspective, focused on the play’s structural aspects and potential problems with staging this drama. “Why are we interested in the second half of the play?” asked Lester...
Last Saturday, Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico and Dr. Lester Grinspoon of the Harvard Medical School rightly advocated the decriminalization of marijuana. These men should be commended for having the courage to address issues that most politicians and academics choose to avoid. As they pointed out, the prohibition of marijuana causes more injustice and social problems than the drug itself—similar to the alcohol prohibition in the 1920s—and thus the ban on its use should...