Word: musician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately Horowitz, who wrote a critically-acclaimed book recording his conversations with Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau, focuses not so much on Toscanini as a man or musician as on the millions of Americans who canonized him, taking it as an article of faith that Toscanini was the "greatest conductor of all time...
FIRST THERE WERE the Grammies, an awards ceremony that honors merely whoever is topping the pop charts this year. Then came the more localized Bammies, or Bay Area Music Awards, honoring similarly lackluster of musicians from the once-trendsetting city of San Francisco. Other cities of equally dubious musical importance followed suit. Last week, Boston, a city whose own popular music heritage is schizophrenic at best, jumped on the bandwagon, so to speak, with its own ceremony, cleverly titled The Boston Music Awards. Granted, Boston's music scene is vital enough to deserve recognition, and some of its local artists...
...Japanese born in China, raised a Christian in a predominantly Shintoist-Buddhist country, married to a woman whose father was Russian, Ozawa has had a divided life, symbolizing on many levels the duality that every Japanese musician in the West faces. "Sometimes I say, 'Why I become Western music musician?' " he muses in the film. "I think that made my life much more interesting, and much more exciting. Of course, I have to pay price...
...vintage wool overcoat and a single earring. Britton will lead today's workshop on the fine points of piping technique. He is something of a phenomenon: only 26, he has been a master piper for a decade. He did have an unfair advantage: his father George was a folk musician and music teacher before it was fashionable and was a founder of the venerable Philadelphia Folk Song Society. Tim started on baritone ukulele before he was eight and took up the Highland pipes at eleven (the "war pipes," he calls them, an appropriate name for an instrument that...
...main draw, Andrew Calhoun, is a Chicago-based musician with three fine albums on the Flying Fish label who has yet to attract a cult following in Cambridge--which probably accounts for the unexpectedly low turnout of about...