Word: musician
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...What’s fun with the Harvard radio station is that they have these things called orgies, which involve playing the entire career of a musician and they devote two days or six hours or whatever it takes to that one artist’s career. I’ve done three orgies at Harvard for the radio station...
...Indeed, censorship remains pervasive. After the school's musicians put on a stirring performance, belting out rousing odes to school and country backed by electric guitars, Rhee Jin Hyuk, a spiky haired drummer, mentions that he owns an MP3 player. But he claims not to have heard of rap music, or even the Beatles. The only tunes he plays are North Korea's version of pop, a chirpy, heavily synthesized sort of muzak that sounds like it was composed in the 1950s. "I want to be a musician in a military propaganda unit," he tells us. Choe, our minder, says...
...persona, Berry first created a stir as the plain, plump, unfairly named Lolita in Look At Me, who tries desperately to win affection in a world dominated by a famous, self-obsessed father. She followed up with another impressive portrayal as the teenage double-bass virtuoso and aspiring jazz musician Hannah, whose sweet struggles with sexist bandmates, a stiflingly affectionate Jewish family and her own ample waistline in 1960s Paris provided the heart and laughter of the comedy The First Time I Turned 20. In her new release, a Franco-Algerian tale of confused identity, she plays the supporting role...
...year ago, thousands of Harvard students and Cambridge-area residents jumped at the chance to see an aging rock star grace the stage in the Gordon Track and Field Center. Legendary musician Bob Dylan, in all of his antiquated glory, drew an admirable crowd of students last fall at a campus that is often openly stubborn to embrace community events. This fall, we believe that the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Undergraduate Council (UC) will top last year’s success, as they announced Monday that the reemerging Wyclef Jean is to headline this November?...
...then, Beethoven had already realized that the worst fate imaginable for a musician had befallen him. In June 1801, he admitted to a friend, “For the last three years my hearing has become weaker and weaker. The trouble is supposed to have been caused by the condition of my abdomen.” Doctors suggested that swimming in the Danube River would assuage the pain of his chronic diarrhea, and that infusions of oil would soften the buzzing in his ears. “In all biography, there are few images more grotesquely sad than that...