Word: musician
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...fame has attracted a worldwide following that far exceeds the popularity of almost every other classical musician...
...Ma’s playing is not the only source of his appeal. His projects are far from the stereotype of a tuxedo-clad classical musician playing stuffy music in a centuries-old symphony hall...
...appoints others to work on the minutiae of song production while he oversees their progress. He works behind a desk and telephone, instead of a piano and microphone, but his background as a musician was the perfect preparation for his current position...
This was not the road McMullen intended to travel. Growing up, he wanted to be an artist or a rock star. While still harboring the musician's dream, he started to work for a company making Halloween masks. A keen sculptor, he began to shape life-size figures out of silicone. "Most sculpture is like 500 pounds of rock. Once you get it, there isn't much you can do with it," he says, squinting through his constant companion cloud of cigarette smoke. "I wanted to make sculpture that could interact with people." And, as he discovered, people wanted...
Calling Don Byron a jazz musician is like calling the Pacific wet - it just doesn't begin to describe it. Magazines may not be able to resist the impulse to categorize, but Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category. Though he made his bones as a jazz clarinetist, over the past decade he has developed a sort of musical Esperanto - impassioned, expansive, inclusive - distilled from the babel of styles, genres and species, both historical and contemporary, that make up our perception of music itself...