Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This last aspect of his career is made most obvious by the long series of lectures, master classes and informal "teaching concerts" with which Kipnis has attempted to make both the harpsichord and its repertoire more accessible to skeptical audiences. He has already visited dozens of American universities in his quest to bring classical music to a young audience or, as he puts it, to "bring the mountain to Mohammed." This week finds him here at his alma mater for a series of student-oriented musical events, as part of the Office for the Arts' Learning from Performers program...
...went to ask one of the masters of my house where I should go, and he didn't even know that Special Concentrations existed," she says. Both the master and a medical school professor "thought I was kidding," she says...
Ruben Blades delivered a speech to 50 students and faculty members at Kirkland House, before moving on to perform as master of ceremonies for the Cultural Rhythms Show in Sanders Theatre. The Grammy-winning singer, actor and composer was invited by the Harvard Foundation, which hosted both events...
...first Waters worked on outlaw subjects and weeny budgets. Now that few moviegoers can be outraged by the antics of his crass menagerie, this past master of bad taste has pulled the ultimate shockeroo: he has made a PG movie. Even more horrifying, Hairspray is in imminent danger of becoming a mainstream hit. Baltimore may never forgive...
...which dream? Damon Runyon did not write stories about office workers. The would-be master builders of Times Square seem to be ignoring the lessons learned in scores of American cities during the past two decades, where downtown neighborhoods were ripped apart wholesale as a way to "renew" them. In almost every instance where a cluster of high-rise office towers replaces smaller commercial buildings, a kind of dead zone results. Street life becomes a daylight affair. "Look at 8 o'clock at night on Sixth Avenue," says Actress Colleen Dewhurst, an antidevelopment activist, alluding to the dreary wall...