Word: marcuses
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...program then moved towards jazz with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, performed by special guest pianist Marcus Roberts with Wynton's brother Jason Marsalis on drums. The arrangement allowed for Roberts to improvise and push the jazz flavor of the piece, while at the same time challenging the performers to smoothly transition from these solos into the more classical feel of the orchestral sections. Also in the second half of the performance the BSO invited some talented young musicians to perform with them: a children's choir joined the orchestra for Orff's "Carmina Burana" and several talented high school...
Yesterday afternoon, the BSO held an open rehearsal to accommodate the large crowd interested in the event, which also featured the Marcus Roberts Trio's performance of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," a presentation of the theme from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," and a performance by BSO's Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Per- forming Artists at the Lincoln Schoolchildren's chorus. Pop singer Roberta Flack hostedthe event...
...worth following because it forks into a second story--Simon and his friend Marcus (Taye Diggs) go to a Vegas lap-dance parlor and play with gunfire--and a third, involving Adam, Zack and a narc (William Fichtner) who comes on to them like a Mark Fuhrman on Viagra. Though some of these folks shade into their 30s, all act like teenagers. The movie is set on Christmas Eve, but emotionally it's Mischief Night, when kids will do anything for the freewheeling hell of it. They fool around as if there were no tomorrow, not caring that tomorrow...
Tall and silver-haired, with softly reassuring blue eyes, Dr. Patrick Christopher Steptoe looked as if he'd just stepped out of a Marcus Welby rerun. In fact, the kindly doctor was a medical revolutionary. On July 25, 1978, as hundreds of reporters descended on the sleepy English mill town of Oldham, the 65-year-old obstetrician delivered the world's first "test-tube baby," a healthy, 5-lb. 12-oz. girl aptly named Louise Joy Brown. Conceived in a lab dish, or in vitro, from the egg and sperm of a working-class couple who had tried for years...
...LaHart's own line of Harvard ties is available at the Coop and select Neiman Marcus department stores...