Word: musician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half a century -and is still to be heard on such records as Albert Walters with the Society Jazz Band and West Indies Blues. Walters taught himself piano as a kid, took up the horn in 1927. He liked to say he was a carpenter by trade but a musician by choice. He appeared now and then with other traditionalists in Preservation Hall, but mostly he worked with Society Jazz. A short, stocky man, widowed several years ago, Walters retired from carpentering but never thought of quitting music. In fact, he had just had his horn reconditioned when he died...
...these groups is a fledgling lobby called Handgun Control Inc., which was founded by former Du Pont Executive Nelson Shields III after his 23-year-old son became a victim of San Francisco's "Zebra" killings in 1974. In the wake of the murders last December of Musician John Lennon and Author-Cardiologist Michael Halberstam,* membership jumped from 90,000 to 130,000. Sacks of mail, including donations, were arriving last week at the organization's Washington headquarters in response to ads taken out after the Reagan shooting. Handgun Control Inc. now has its own political action committee...
...hotheaded (but lovable) musician goes off with a woman over 30-always evil-and Lane rebounds with Reggie, the opera singer, and Tom, "the sweetest guy in the world." After the requisite skirmishes and reconciliations, Michael is persuaded to play a concerto for two hearts, and the wedded Lane happily manages his life. Throughout her trials, she cooks not one meal and never worries about pregnancy or inflation. Romance heroines are too busy tracking and trapping their hot-eyed executives...
...with it the title of Music Director, is like a full-time job. But although she is eager to take on this full-time responsibility--"It's really the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me"--Watt says she still resists the idea of becoming a professional musician. "I would much rather have music as an avocation, as something to enjoy, than as something to put me under all this intense pressure," she says, adding, "If anyone had asked me last year whether I'd be conducting I would have told them they were crazy...
Every weekend. 300 students, Square employees, professors, and Cambridge citizens visit the Nameless to sit back, drink hot cider, and listen to local entertainment. No musician is paid...