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...singer and songwriter in '70s rock group Orleans (of Still the One fame), Hall is leader of a club that also includes Bill Sali (R., Idaho), who was in the swing band Blue Country, and Paul Hodes (D., N.H.), an award-winning children's musician...
...third century A.D., the Chinese scholar and musician Ruan Ji began a 60-day drinking binge. Ji got smashed every day to avoid serving in a corrupt government, and wrote music like “Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda labeled “The immortal exhales his wine.” Though drinking served as a leitmotif during last week’s residency of the Silk Road Project—founded and directed by Yo-Yo Ma ’76—each piece of music was far more...
...could accuseDavid Crosby of having led aboring life. A founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the veteran musician has made even more headlines for his turbulent personal life. Crosby, who appeared at Woodstock, has gone to prison for possession of a firearm and drugs, been in a serious motorcycle crash, gone broke, taken heroin, had a liver transplant and fathered six children, two of them as a sperm donor. He recounts his colorful story in his new book, Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It (Putnam), which will...
...option, Zhou says.After work, Zhou would practice the jinghu in his apartment, just as he had done in China. However, Zhou’s new neighbors threatened to call the police. The embattled artist took to practicing outdoors, atop a hill in Boston Common.Three years ago, a fellow Chinese musician suggested that Zhou relocate to the Square, where he could earn money while practicing.Following this advice, Zhou brought his talents to this side of the Charles, and he quit his restaurant job shortly thereafter.On “good days” when it’s not raining, Zhou takes...
...instead of being armed with pick up lines and drenched in fragrance, students brought musical equipment of all kinds with the hope of meeting other musically-inclined peers. “The main idea of the event parallels the point of HCARAR, which is to help musicians connect with each other. We want to make the music community more social and tight knit,” said Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, president of HCARAR. The inspiration for the event came from HCARAR’s Events Liason, Amy R. Klein...