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...most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons. It was Benny who set the teenagers of the 1930s stomping at the Savoy and sing, sing, singing with his soaring, exhilarating swing music; it was Benny who broke the color line in music by integrating his band with the likes of Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson (''I'm selling music, not prejudice,'' he said); it was Benny who brought jazz to Carnegie Hall, confirming its status as an art form. Long before he died of an apparent heart attack in New York City last week, at 77, Goodman's place in jazz...
...faced its arch-rival Argentina in a 0-0 draw, the coach was again in the fans' cross hairs. "Cheerio, Dunga," they roared, as Brazil struggled to put the ball in the net. "Donkey, donkey, donkey," they chanted, before doing the unthinkable - loudly cheering their opponent's best player, Lionel Messi...
Rowling is the fifth woman since 1950 to speak at Commencement. Previous writers to address graduates include Ralph Ellison, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Lionel Trilling. —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
Rowling is the fifth woman since 1950 to speak at Commencement. Previous writers to address the graduates include Ralph Ellison, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Lionel Trilling...
...days of activities at Harvard, including rehearsing with students, participating in a Learning from Performers conversation through the Office for the Arts, and, for Miller, teaching a master class. Golson, a saxophonist, composer, and arranger, has played with a number of bands and collaborated with such jazz musicians as Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1995, he received the Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s highest honor in jazz. A New York Times poll of jazz musicians that year also found Miller to be “the most in-demand...