Word: musician
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...University. From the moment he walked onto the Sanders stage, whether talking or gesticulating or demonstrating, Rostropovich won the rapt attention of his audience. Wildly waving his arms to illustrate musical points and likening performers' bad habits to sausages, pollution and clumsy love, Rostropovich repeatedly exhibited what a superlative musician can offer a student and an audience, even without his instrument...
...body gestures. Rostropovich and Seiji Ozawa seem almost to dance together, even when they lose eye contact. If Rostropovich has a comment to make to the orchestra--and he knows every instrument's part--he demonstrates what it should sound like on his cello. Rostropovich is a thorough musician, and when he plays or rehearses with an orchestra, he takes charge...
...warning: don't come expecting to hear recipes for great cello playing, or even isolated ingredients. Rostropovich is not only a great musician, but also a great charmer, and one can never gues what means he'll use to captivate and educate his audience. (At a Juilliard master class last fall, Rostropovich asked the audience to allow him his "quota of silliness." He filled at least that.) At any rate, the class will undoubtedly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, if only to hear him fiddle with the instrument...
Died. Willis ("Ray") Nance, 62, a versatile musician who growled on the trumpet and wailed jazz on the violin for 23 years with Duke Ellington's band; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Neither of the men who dominate Knock Knock is about to weep, but they are bored to tears with each other. Cohn (Daniel Seltzer) and Abe (Neil Flanagan) have shared bachelor digs for 20 years in a small house from which they never emerge. Cohn, an ex-musician, does the cooking and nurses a residual faculty for believing in myths. Abe, an ex-stockbroker, guards the shrine of adamant rationalism...