Word: musician
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...Musician Dave C. Ylvisaker, who only met Hill once a decade ago, still remembers his “vibe...
...Barack Obama. Along with many other people, I had some fun with it, talking about that we're now going to give out the Nobel Peace Prize not for what someone has done but for what we hope they do. If this is the case, since I'm a musician, I'd like to go ahead and get a Grammy. I haven't been on Broadway, but I did see Jersey Boys a couple of weeks ago. I think a Tony would be nice. From this latest book, I appreciate my Pulitzer in advance...
Ishiguro’s short stories are well-executed, witty, and will not fail to disappoint his past readers. However, the stories still feel more like the technical toying of a master musician than a lyrical melodic narrative. Unlike Debussy’s carefully nuanced grey that covers the whole of the emotional spectrum, Ishiguro’s “Nocturnes” are filled with the grey of blanketed emotion. Shimmering scenes occasionally rise up out of the narrative, only to be dragged back into the monotony of ordinary life...
...have to confront their mediocrity. Characters drift apart as they realize that they have not fulfilled their individual ambitions: the marriage between trophy wife Lindy Gardner and her fading American crooner husband unravels; the apprenticeship of a young Russian cellist under a woman who professes to be an accomplished musician dissolves; a struggling jazz musician, seeking notoriety, undergoes an unnecessary facelift and befriends Gardner while recovering from his surgery in a futile attempt to achieve celebrity...
...majority of auditions happened at a much more shambolic level. In fact, when you saw the way most bands went about things, it was no mystery why the whole scene in London was dying on its feet.” In the same way, the American jazz musician who befriends Gardner, has a completely different syntax that instantly identifies him as a member of the L.A. music scene: “If it’s pop they want, it’s pop I play. R&B? Fine. Car commercials, the walk-on theme for a talk show...