Word: musicians
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There were other bad times and two more failed marriages. One of Earle's sweetest tunes is a lullaby called Little Rock 'n' Roller, sung by a traveling musician to a faraway son. "That song was no fun to write, and it isn't any fun to sing," says Earle, who has a son of his own. "But I really needed to write it. It made me feel better...
...actor John Lithgow '67 recited an address Harvard's own Ralph Waldo Emerson (Class of 1821); George Plimpton '48 told of students, their times at Harvard, and of how they got thrown out of the College; and John Williams and the Boston Pops paid tribute to fellow musician Leonard Bernstein...
...such big hands -- but an audience just destroys him." His only time on the stage, this fellow fell apart. "He stayed here all day practicing. He had a Valium. Then he called the doctor. Then he had three more Valium and two double shots." As show time neared, this musician stepped out the kitchen door to relieve himself. Marge had to stop the proceedings and find him and lead him into the parlor. He played Home on the Range twelve times. Marge hissed from the kitchen, "Get to the end!" The man whined, "I passed it." Marge came...
...their own frequent accounts in the public prints, the Lloyds are prone to slight disagreements. He has liked rock music; she has liked a rock musician. But they differ on nothing else quite as much as tennis. To Chris, "It's in your blood, putting something on the line every day. It's a great feeling when you win. And when you lose, I think you're wiser." But the Englishman she married in 1979 never regarded tennis as a blood sport or a life. While Chris expressed eagerness even for practice, John had to admit, "It was such...
...Gould was a bizarre person, his many recordings also show him as a brilliant, unusual musician with spectacular digital agility. Best known for his Bach interpretations (he recorded all of Bach's solo keyboard works), Gould almost never played the music of Romantic composers like Chopin, Liszi and Rachmaninoff, whose compositions are the bread and butter of so many virtuosos...