Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compares to what they produced in the past. In addition to Fairport, you'll also get a chance to witness one of the more atypical figures in rock, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Though his popular following is quite large in Europe, Ponty remains a critic's musician here, though he is played extensively with Frank Zappa and is close to becoming a full-fledged Mother...
Cowell's work on Handscapes and Handscapes II with the Piano Choral is even more exemplary of the sweeping, authoritative style of this still youthful musician...
About Charles Ives. Ives seems like a pretty complex character--an insurance salesman who felt his work helped him "dig a little in real life," and a musician who celebrated in his works such diverse aspects of Americana as the transcend-entalists and the first and second world wars. He admired Emerson and once wrote that he "plunges to all roots at once." And it seems like maybe a profile of Ives could do the same thing, only the roots may be nearer the surface and the plunge could hurt if the profile is well done...
...scholar and the relish of a storyteller. He manages to puncture the myth without deflating the life. From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1831, a 26-year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost every author, artist, musician and revolutionary politician of her day. By Gate's count, however, Sand's liaisons numbered no more than 20−and (contrary to gossip) they were all with...
...unlikely prophet to his people. Born in New York City to a Spanish musician father and an Irish immigrant mother, De Valera was sent to his grandmother's in County Limerick at the age of two, when his father died. He taught mathematics after graduating from Ireland's Royal University but soon turned to politics. In 1913, the gawky, bespectacled De Valera signed on with the pro-Republican Irish Volunteers, quickly rising to battalion commandant. Three years later, De Valera deployed some 50 men around their battle station for the Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating...