Word: musician
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...oncologist Dr. Harold Freeman. PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi honored her two daughters, while Robert Downey Jr. tearfully thanked his father, filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. It was a sparkling evening--like the TIME 100 issue come to life. And it began with a performance by legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock, was punctuated by a hilariously topical dialogue between Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers and ended with a dazzling performance by singer Mariah Carey. Now that's influence plus inspiration...
...assistant attorney general. After years of working as a lawyer, Hodes was elected to represent New Hampshire in the House of Representatives in 2006 and served as the president of the new class of representatives that year. Aside from his legal and political careers, Hodes also moonlights as a musician. He has performed both folk and children’s rock music with his wife Peggo under the name Peggo and Paul. “He has his own record label. He’s funny. He’s charismatic,” said College Democrats Events Director Jonathan...
...many pieces, he had different sections of the orchestra play from different parts of concert halls. He wrote others for large ensembles of a single instrument, as with 1979's Orbits, which calls for 80 trombones. Brant found inspiration in all corners of his life--from his musician father, who was a professional violinist, to his world travels. His Pulitzer Prize-winning 2001 composition, Ice Field, was inspired by a childhood trip aboard an ocean liner navigating through icebergs...
...here at Harvard everyone has some other interests, so you don’t play to win this audition or to impress certain people—and that’s one of the most important things...that we need to keep and pass on to all the musicians coming up.”And it wasn’t only the diversity of the students that was striking to Harvard’s extremely talented cellist when she arrived here; the skills of Harvard musicians struck her profoundly.“When I got to Harvard, the talent...
...cures rare diseases and can whip up a mean soufflé—or, in Redman’s case, solves the world’s social problems and plays a mean saxophone. Now, he is one of the world’s foremost jazz musicians, with a style that is at once poised and loose, technically excellent and creatively free. But technique and creativity haven’t always been easy for Redman to reconcile.While he was an undergraduate at Harvard, Redman led a double life. There was Redman the Phi Beta Kappa student who graduated with...