Word: musician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard should not go down this path. We should vote for whomever we think will serve our community best, irrespective of whether that person is a he or a she, a musician or an athlete, a Christian or a Jew, a member of our own ethnic group or someone from a different background. Then we could have true representatives, along with the contentment that comes from doing right...
...upon layer of increasingly intense music that demanded ferocious vocal control and culminated in whirling peaks of ecstasy. Khan not only revived qawwali's popularity in his native Pakistan but also, after being lured into recording the sound track for The Last Temptation of Christ by the British rock musician Peter Gabriel, began attracting an international following. Besides recording the sound tracks of Natural Born Killers and Dead Man Walking (where he sang with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder), he continued to perform around the world. At sold-out performances, throngs would dance and whirl, some shouting...
...Juilliard School's division of adult studies to study classical piano. Details are not final, but Juilliard has offered to customize a program for her, since she hardly keeps the hours of its regular adult students--mostly doctors, accountants and lawyers. She's not the first celeb musician to seek higher learning there: John Tesh was also a student...
...eatery had to cancel a live performance by musician Merrie Amsterberg. Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre also canceled its opening night performance of Taming of the Shrew at the Loeb Experimental The-ater, sending a sold out crowd--as well as an eager cast--home disappointed...
...Elvis had found one particularly short-sighted way to generate quick income in his declining years: in 1973 he sold his entire catalog of recordings--the performances themselves--to RCA for $5 million, an absurdly low price considering that he had sold 1 billion records, more than any other musician in U.S. history. Just how good an investment this was for RCA is strikingly evident today: Elvis remains, in 1997, its most successful act (though this is perhaps as much a comment on the moribund label as on the singer). The sale left EPE with only the royalties from recordings...