Word: musician
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Just last week WYNTON MARSALIS, musician, composer and keeper of the flame of jazz tradition, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Blood on the Fields, a three-hour, 22-movement oratorio for orchestra, ensemble and vocalists. It was the first jazz-based composition to win the Pulitzer since music was added as a category in 1943. The prize clinched his position as the man doing the most to bring jazz, a great art form of the 20th century, into the 21st...
...baby chicks. Rather than sticking their heads rapidly upward and forward, then holding still while they squealed, they wobbled their heads up and down like quail. Or they postured like chickens but engaged in the distinctive three-note quail song. After much trial and error, Balaban--an amateur baroque musician who sometimes serenaded his chicks with his lute to stimulate their singing--traced the movements and sounds to two very different areas in the brain. "That's new. That's interesting," says Caltech neurobiologist Masakazu Konishi. "It means posture and sound that usually occur together in crowing are controlled...
...chapels or apartments of princes. Monteverdi is trying to see how far his artistic wings will carry him. These two publications prove his mastery of his art, and the dedication to the Pope suggests his desire for a new job, far away from the problems of being the court musician at Mantua, with all its requirements to provide music for dinners, concerts, dancing, tournaments...
While speaking to an Afro-American Studies class yesterday, Quincy D. Jones Jr., the popular R&B musician and producer, mentioned that Time Warner will provide a matching grant to permanently endow the visiting chair now in Jones' name...
...Yankee sweatshirt. He stands in sharp contrast to Gelblum, who is dark-haired and bearded and almost always looks relaxed, even when he is tense. But the two key attorneys for the plaintiffs have much in common. A native of East Orange, New Jersey, Petrocelli dreamed of being a musician. He took up the trumpet and migrated to California to major in music at UCLA. Gelblum, who was a theater major at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, worked as an actor in New York City. He once played a killer on the television series Kojak. Both men realized the financial restrictions...