Word: musician
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...upbeat drum part to this song instantly for me conjures up memories of my youngest brother and aspiring musician jamming away diligently in our basement in Chicago. Living as far away from home as most of us do at school, cultural artifacts that resonate with the people and relationships we left behind, as thing song does for me, really have a way of giving you goosebumps...
...four-hour series, part one of which aired yesterday, chronicles the quests of Gates, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, actress Whoopi Goldberg, astronaut Mae Jemison, musician Quincy Jones, televangelist T.D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and fellow Harvard professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as they trace their family trees all the way back to Africa...
...never fully explained to her. After playing with the American Symphony Orchestra in 1969, Gutman was declined a visa to return to the United States the following year. She says she was told secretly that this restriction resulted from her support of two political dissidents and fellow Russian Jewish musicians, Misha Maisky and Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich. Gutman says she resisted the Soviet government’s insistence that she cut ties with her friends, and tells of a tense interview held with government authorities while she was pursuing her visa. “I said that if they think that...
...born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He spent most of his childhood in New York and began playing the cello at the age of four. Ma was already a renowned musician by the time he began his undergraduate education...
...Behind much of this enterprise is a U.S. musician named Don Campbell, who is not a scientist and had nothing to do with the original research, but who quickly trademarked the term "Mozart effect," and has written two best-selling books on the subject and compiled more than a dozen CDs. "In an instant, music can uplift our soul. It awakens within us the spirit of prayer, compassion and love," he writes. "It clears our minds and has been known to make us smarter." Rauscher is both bemused and sometimes amused by such rank commercialization. "At least somebody managed...