Word: musician
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...Even if he's not a fan of The Clash, Tony Blair - a former rock musician himself - must be hearing these lyrics in his head this week. Having led the Labour Party to a historic third term victory just a year ago, he now confronts a party in turmoil, dominated by the question of when exactly he will vacate 10 Downing St., presumably to make room for his long-time ally and sometime rival Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...performance of original pop and rock songs at Arts First on May 7, he will follow up with a May 16 performance of his senior thesis—a concerto for piano and a 40-piece orchestra, which Wang has assembled himself. “Derrick is a flexible musician,” says Mason Professor of Music Carol J. Oja, who teaches Wang’s seminar on Leonard Bernstein. “He has a serious, classical side to his composition, but he also has the more free-spirited, musical theatre side.” Wang will have...
...available in straight narrative discourse,” says Preceptor in Expository Writing Kate Chadbourne. Though Chadbourne’s affiliation with Harvard is primarily that of an Expos teacher, her work extends into numerous other fields. She is a teacher of modern Irish, a poet, a folklorist, a musician who plays the piano, the flute, and the harp, and, most of all, a storyteller—a medium in which all of her other interests and talents come to fruition. Born in Saco, Maine to a nurse and a fisherman, Chadbourne always loved music and storytelling...
...ensemble to bookend “Playboy” and to punctuate its action. The instrumentation is traditionally Irish, and certainly unique to the production. The accordion, fiddle, Uilleann (dubbed “indoor bagpipes” by Hester) and bodhran (an Irish percussion instrument) will accompany a vocal musician who, according to Spillane-Hinks, spans the gap between music and theater, and who will introduce the performance in a manner reminiscent of a Shakespearian prologue...
...Dylan, the greatest contemporary rock musician. He just keeps performing, at tiny places where people can afford to get in and hear him. There has been even more exposure to him through his book and the film about his life. What he stood for when he came to prominence is as relevant now. At his age, as he sings against the war, a chill goes through the audience. They know what he's talking about...