Word: musician
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...approach. "I wasn't so interested in the music department in general--it seemed to require a lot of things I didn't want to study." Although he is an accomplished clarinetist and has studied piano since coming to college, Rothenberg does not consider himself primarily a classically trained musician. He feels he has not had much of the basic standard instruction in performance and music theory, and downplays his proficiency. Rather, he emphasizes the other facets of music he has pursued: jazz, improvisation and composition...
...rocket, he can look up tendril in a dictionary. And Pynchon's stories are not as bad as he claims. The Small Rain rather artfully juxtaposes the tedium of peacetime Army service, a catastrophic hurricane and sex. The Secret Integration accurately catches the locutions of an alcoholic jazz musician. Under the Rose is an evocative spy story set in a kind of operetta Egypt, with all the local color lifted, as Pynchon admits, from a Baedeker guide for the year 1 899. From the germ of this story sprang...
...promotional event. Georgetown University's campus radio station invited the college's best musician impersonators to compete against each other and win valuable prizes...
...public did not fall in love with Michael Jackson for his talents as a songwriter, musician or innovator [SHOW BUSINESS, March 19]. They fell in love with Jackson the dancer, the showman, the sexy teen idol, the ultimate entertainer...
...Holland team wrote many of the songs that were recorded at Motown, but each left their particular imprint on the songs. The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones would all acknowledge a debt to Gaye's subtle crooning style. And, of course. Gaye became a painstaking musician, playing most of the instruments on his later albums and earning a reputation as a studio perfectionist...