Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That'll Be the Day has mostly the music in common with any of these. It is an intelligent, rueful attempt to get at the roots of pop culture by dramatizing the shaky beginnings of one musician's career. Director Claude Whatham and Writer Ray Connolly also succeed nicely at something that has hardly ever been tried: to say and to show just how rock gave a voice to a generation...
Widely known as a towering figure in pro basketball and a devout convert to the Islamic faith, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is less famous as an amateur musician. The son of a trombonist, the 7-ft. 2-in. Milwaukee Bucks center is a longtime jazz devotee who plays the piano, drums and reeds for relaxation...
...postcurfew carousing or curb her iron spirit. Says Joni: "It was then and still is a constant war to liberate myself from values not applicable to the period in which I live." At 19, after a brief try at art school in Calgary, Joan decided to become a professional musician. Too poor to join the musicians' union, she floated around Toronto until one night she met Chuck Mitchell, a cabaret performer from Detroit who was appearing at the Penny Farthing. She was a prairie-fresh girl who sang a strong yet ethereal soprano and stitched up her own pantsuits...
...Troupe evidently treats Chinese art more generously: a folk singer sang a sad song about a river flowing, and explained that although it provided no revolutionary uplift it expressed the sadness working people had often felt in the past. But the musician insisted that modern Chinese ballets should never end sadly, for fear of depressing the workers and peasants and so working against their enthusiasm and interests...
...didn't know how to paint, and these things have been lingering in my mind." She said she'd always liked to draw in school, and that now she thought maybe she could help the Revolution that way, too. That made more sense to me than did the musician who said the Ninth Symphony couldn't speak for China, but it wasn't until the night before we left the country that the issue really came to a head...