Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month a vacationer from Hamburg strayed too near the border fence along its northern stretch, so the East German guards shot him and dragged him through the fence for interrogation. Several days later, a young Hamburg musician tried to engage an East German border guard in a chat about Western music. The response: a fusillade that sent the musician scrambling to safety in some nearby bushes. In the most recent incident, an Italian truck driver, who happened to be a member of the Communist Party, crossed legally into West Germany at a checkpoint in Bavaria, but then...
...never married, says that when she was young she never thought that "being a woman would make a difference [in her career], because I'd always done everything I wanted." Her father Glen was a lawyer and businessman in Kokomo, Ind.; her mother Bernice, an amateur musician. The most illustrious member of the family was Bernice's father, Elwood Haynes, who designed one of the first successful automobiles and discovered stainless steel...
STREET ENTERTAINMENT. New York has enough street musicians to people-and entertain-a convention hall. Their fare is gratis-and sometimes worth even less. Yet a few rate an earing and eying-among them, the Wretched Refuse, a conglomerate of nine fine instrumentalists who specialize in asphalt bluegrass. Sugar Blue, a black harmonica player who plies his tunes in Greenwich Village, may be the best itinerant musician in New York. Around Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, less prominent and more indigent fiddlers than those indoors make Brahms burst in midair, usually by tuning their violins up a tone to make...
...jazz musician who is worth a toot knows what July 4 means. July 4 is the birthday of one of America's great founding fathers: Louis Armstrong. The life of the incomparable Satchmo spanned virtually the entire development of jazz, but that uniquely American music did not disappear with Armstrong's passing at age 71 five years ago. Indeed what is remarkable about jazz is that its original face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles...
...Summer School Orchestra and Chorus, both directed by Michael Zearott, require auditions, but the standards are not too demanding, and the spectrum of people accepted is fairly wide, according to Julie Montgomery, who handles promotion for the Summer School arts program. Orchestra members generally include all stripe of musician from ardent high schoolers to professional union members anxious not to pass the summer without performing...