Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan for a cover story on Singer-Guitarist James Taylor and his talented family got under way last month when TIME'S Music Critic William Bender attended a brilliant performance by the young musician at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Later that evening, Bender and Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov talked with Taylor for two hours at an East Side apartment. "James is not given to glibness," says Bender. "As in his songs, he doesn't say anything he doesn't know to be true. He's a man very sure of his own mind...
...softening of the youth revolution. Its decline is variously viewed as a symptom of either progress toward harmony and thoughtfulness or a tragic slide from activist rage into a mood of "enlightened apathy." There is also the desire for individual expression on the part of talented rock musicians too long cooped up in their communal palaces of sound. Many of them came to realize that the higher the decibel rate, the less creative subtlety possible for composers and performers alike. In any case, rock could hardly have gotten more frenzied. "After you set your guitar on fire," says Rock Musician...
...shoulders, Taylor physically projects a blend of Heathcliffian inner fire with a melancholy sorrows-of-young-Werther look that can strike to the female heart?at any age. Half explaining, half apologizing for her delight in Fire and Rain, a University of Michigan coed who is also a trained musician admits: "I don't know why I love it. I know I shouldn't, because he doesn't really sing. He just sort of intones...
Shunning Rivalry. The Met is one of the world's few major opera houses that lacks a musician at its helm. Gentele is not a musician−he plans to hire a music director−but his own theatrical credentials are highly in order. In younger days, he directed some 30 plays for Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, and at the Royal Opera he has mounted 28 operas. That background ought to equip him for the badly needed revitalizing of stagecraft at the Met. "Opera is a popular art, and it should be as exciting as a bullfight...
...only a day later, her parents picked her up after work and forced her to return home. During the next month, she often stopped to have coffee with Donna Sue on her way to school, and during that time she got to know Scott Kabran, a former high school musician and poet with shoulder-length red hair...