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...business, Duclos spends enough time on the fairways to keep his handicap at a respectable 6. Besides the Long Beach home, Duclos and his wife Mollie own a vacation cottage near the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. Off the links, he relaxes by playing Beethoven and Mozart on a Kawai grand piano, accompanied by a $17,000 Kurzweil synthesizer that can replicate the sound of a symphony orchestra...
...office lined with scores of art books and bedecked with posters of the Beatles and Mozart, Bentkowski works on his designs. Often he plays a wide range of music on his record-and-tape system, a reminder of the days when he wrote a column of rock criticism for New York magazine, from 1977 to 1984. There have been other aspirations. "I used to dream of becoming a hockey player," says Bentkowski, who hails from Buffalo, "but I was a rare combination of lack of size and lack of speed." The world of magazine design was the obvious beneficiary. After...
...would think he could blow his nose and sink a Hudson River liner. Worse, a braking train in a tunnel in this town can sound like a ten- ton banshee caught in a vise. And yet there he sits, caressing an acoustic guitar in bedlam, playing Bach and Mozart, Francisco Tarrega and Erik Satie, and one of the reasons he got his back up about it was that the city had the gall to hit him with an environmental charge: making unnecessary noise...
...repertoire of classic, bel canto and romantic bass roles, Ramey, 45, is without peer. He is a seductive Don Giovanni and a boisterous Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni, a poignant Don Quixote in Massenet's Don Quichotte and a terrifying barbarian chief in Verdi's Attila. This month he is in Italy for appearances at La Scala in his favorite role, the sexy Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro...
JUST AS classical music listeners must have been shocked when Mozart metamorphosized into the superstar Amadeus, blues fans might be suprised at the thought of scruffy old John Lee Hooker--alias the "Buddha of the Blues"--making a music video. But ever since the first folk/blues revival took off from Harvard Square, white blues promotors have been packaging Black blues players for white audiences...