Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exemplary idiot savant could play most pieces on the piano, classical or popular, after a single hearing. Here is Harry Kahne, who could write five words on a blackboard simultaneously, holding chalk in his feet, hands and mouth. Here is Matthew Buchinger, who was a marksman, conjurer, artist and musician. Not exactly headline making -- except that Matthew was 29 in. high and had neither arms nor feet...
...prodigals' homecoming. Their arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport was prominently shown on the nightly TV news program Vremya. The TASS news agency gravely intoned, "Many former Soviet citizens, duped by Western propaganda into leaving for capitalist countries, have been allowed to return home." Taras Kordonsky, 39, a musician who could not find work in the U.S., was quoted by TASS as saying, "Ruthlessness and violence and the feeling that you could be kicked out of work or out of your home were depressing...
Carla Bley, a premier avant-garde jazz composer and musician, and the Harvard Jazz Band played before a capacity crowd of about 350 last night in Agassiz Theatre...
...professional musician said that at first she, too, found the rehearsals too amateur for her. "It started off awful. It was such a disappointment," Bley said. However, she said, "It's gone from hideous to incredible in two days...
...Blue," a musician in the group "Two Hippies and an Armenian," which Pratt booked after they had performed an act on Brattle Street, said he believes in the cause and does not feel the group will be going out of their way to appear...