Word: musician
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...media publicity can affect prodigies like a sun lamp: first you blossom, then you blister. But this wunderkind has paced her career sensibly, steering clear of the pitfalls that await unformed artists who push themselves (or are pushed) too hard. Now, at 21, she is a fully mature musician with a style all her own. Says Fred Rogers, on whose TV show Hahn has appeared: "She can play a very complicated, unaccompanied piece by Bach, and then two minutes later play Tree, Tree, Tree, which is one of the most simple songs in the world. But when Hilary plays them...
...were recording in the same studio. It was"--in a perfect mall-rat accent--"we're definitely meeting them. For sure. We met the one, I think his name is Kevin." She was asked whether the pop star treated her as if she were a besotted fan or another musician. "Well!" Tucker said. "Total besotted fan. He didn't see me as a musician at all. He doesn't know who I am. He'd never listen to Sleater-Kinney...
...disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer and a musician,' he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in 'The Encyclopedia of Record Producers' (Billboard Books, 1999), 'that's very complementary...
...shame you failed to mention even one classical musician. As we sink deeper into the morass of mediocrity, classical music is one of the few things of quality and beauty that remain. Rock, pop, hip-hop and rap have done little if anything for the history of music, and most of what is out today will probably be forgotten in a few years. ANNE BERNIE CALUWAERT High Springs...
Farina had serious literary talent--he published poetry in the Atlantic, and his novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is still in print--but he willed himself to be a musician, eventually recording with his second wife Mimi Baez Farina (Joan's younger sister), until his slender musical talent was taken for something real. Most of all, though, he wanted to be famous, to occupy a central place in the youth culture he could see taking shape around...