Word: musician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weaknesses, and those of the wide world too. She got her first training as a dancer (she won a scholarship in dance at the University of Michigan, but she stayed only 1 1/2 years). She became a fairly good rock drummer and guitarist during her knockabout years as a musician in New York City, then turned to rock singing because she realized she wasn't going anywhere in the dance world. She says that she might do another rock tour, if her manager Freddy DeMann "puts a gun to my head," but clearly it is almost time for another career...
...talk about her scroungy years in New York. She recalls being fired from a long succession of ratty jobs. She resents suggestions that she slept her way to the top. That is not because she didn't learn her trade from a succession of musicians and deejays, some of whom she slept with, but because the idea that she couldn't make it to the top on drive and talent alone is insulting. In fact the men in her life talk about her now % without rancor; it seems to have been obvious even then that Madonna was just passing through...
...read music like most children read books, if your family played music together the way others play baseball, if you wanted to grow up to be a musician instead of an astronaut, you could be Johann Sebastian in Bach...or you could be Christoph Wolff, Chairman of the Music Department...
...course it is ultimately Mozart--the musician, not the character--who, with a little help from his Hollywood friends, has turned Amadeus into such an unlikely hit. "The true magic of the movie is in the music," says Abraham, 45. "It's the first time in the history of film that music has been the central figure. Amadeus has wonderful acting, directing and costumes, but it is the music that sustains...
...year, Tsang was so proficient at both instruments that he was accepted to the Saturday School at Juliard, and became the youngest musician to attain that honor. Back then, Tsang recalls, he could never have predicted his current plans to be a professional musician, and knew only that he loved music...