Word: musician
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...shoestring skills honed by 20 years of Hong Kong filmmaking did the rest. Doyle didn't pick up a camera until his late twenties, when he accompanied a musician friend on a 20-day trek around Taiwan to record folk songs: "He had a camera and I had the time." Without a visa and under the pseudonym Du Ke Feng ("like the wind"), he joined the news department of China Television, making documentaries for the Taiwanese version of 60 Minutes. Then, director friend Edward Yang invited Doyle to work on his feature debut That Day, On the Beach...
...when he served as a non-resident Chemistry tutor in Eliot House last year. “He performed in lecture at the end of Chem. 5 last year, so I knew that in addition to being a chemistry genius and excellent teacher, he was also a very talented musician,” says Morrissey...
...this mode, McFerrin emerged onstage as much as a loving pedagogue and mentor as he did an enterprising musician in his own right. He lent his talents to the Harvard Dancers, providing a soundtrack for small ensembles. McFerrin and the dancers seemed to mutually feed of each other’s thematic ideas for a captivating synergy of vocal and physical improvisation. The members of three a cappella groups the Veritones, the Pitches and the Din & Tonics could barely contain smiles as McFerrin worked his way into their individual songs, reaping the benefits of tutelage from a man whose musical...
JOSH TYRANGIEL WROTE OUR COVER STORY ON BONO (BEING PHOTOGRAPHED HERE BY SAM JONES), THE MULTITASKING ROCK MUSICIAN. Reporting on Bono means that you get to visit a variety of universes. In New York City you accompany the noted social activist Bono at the World Economic Forum to discuss globalization nonstop. Then in New Orleans you are hanging with the global rock star Bono at the Super Bowl, a nonstop party. I love Keynesians as much as the next guy, but New Orleans and U2 is tough to beat. As the band members made their way from the field...
...institution in the country. Says Ndii: "Liberalizing the market can really work." Unfortunately, it is a slow process in Kenya, in part because liberalization upsets so many vested interests. Real change will require more than a visiting vice squad. It will need a "complete cleanup, legally, morally, everything," says musician Wainaina. That would be something to sing about...