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Your spoken-word interpretations of "Rocket Man" and "Common People" with Ben Folds have become YouTube classics. How did this musical career begin? I did an album 40 years ago that was a mixed success, both creatively and critically. But out of it came a concept of how to do songs and how to make the poetry of the lyrics resonate, as a nonsinger. Instead of singing, holding the note, you can use the rhythm of the words to indicate the emotions - whether it's Sarah Palin's meanderings or Shakespeare. Well-written words are music...
...Though he made a living as an advertising designer, Heinz Edelmann, 75, is best known for creating the psychedelic look of Pepperland in the 1968 Beatles cartoon film Yellow Submarine, complete with dancing typography and music-hating villains called Blue Meanies...
Cunningham performed long after the last strand of hair on his wily mane had turned gray. His final piece of choreography, Nearly Ninety, premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April to mark his 90th birthday. In June the Cunningham Dance Foundation unveiled a "living legacy" plan to maintain his body of work. But to Cunningham, his art was not meant to endure. Dance, he said, "gives you nothing back ... nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive...
...with heaps of inside-the-beltway experience, and it shows. The narrative stays tightly focused on candidates and political issues almost to a fault - glossing over the broader cultural momentum that helped propel Obama to a decisive win. There is no mention of Will.i.am's viral "Yes We Can" music video that galvanized youth support, or of Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous "Hope" graphic, which lent the candidate street cred and fed the perception that he hovered above conventional politics. The authors mention Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live impression of Sarah Palin, but don't convey the damage it inflicted...
...move somewhere with the freedom of speech to share my feelings with others," says the producer. He says that operating as an artist in Iran has become almost impossible because of the heavy-handed Internet filters that block the social-networking sites he relies on to market his music. "When I get out of the country, I will show [the government...