Word: musician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evokes such colleagues as Thomas ("Fats") Waller and Lester Young, and he has a nice eye for after-hours vignettes. With the artful help of Collaborator Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues), he turns his early memories into a historically valuable account of the itinerant, raffish life of the black musician in the '20s and '30s. The Jim Crow working conditions provoke little bitterness. All he wanted, says the Count, was "to play music and have a ball." Basie and Murray get that spirit into their book, and now it is the reader who has the ball...
...reminiscences, The Lady and the Clarinet centers around the character of Luba (Elissa Forsythe), a woman unable to find happiness in her love life as she looks back at her three most important romantic involvements. The play begins with the entrance of the clarinet player (Darryl Durham), a musician whom Luba has hired to provide background music for a dinner date at her apartment. Throughout the play, the clarinet player functions as a low-budget, on-stage orchestra to help fill in the many slow moments. The musician also does double duty as a backdrop against which Luba can bounce...
...amusing it is that Reagan praises Tyrone Ford for "surmounting adversity" to become an accomplished musician and calls for greater opportunity. Meanwhile, he pursues cuts in funding for the arts, threatening the opportunities of promising young musicians...
...flurry of snow late Saturday night brought nearly 100 people to Holyoke Center where they danced to street musician Luke Hunsberger's singing. "It was great. We had two Snow Balls--one inside and one outside," Alcorn said...
Lennon was shot outside his apartment in New York City on December 8, 1980 by Mark David Chapman. Chapman later told authorities he had felt slighted when the musician had earlier in the day refused to give him an autograph...