Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lose weight, get a haircut and trade in his glasses for contact lenses, Levine balked: "I said I will make myself so much the opposite of the great profile that I will have the satisfaction of knowing that I'm engaged because I'm a musician, and not because the ladies are swooning in the first balcony...
Levine is also accused of conducting too many performances, freezing out eminent guest conductors. "The weakness of the conducting staff is a manifestation of his own ego," says one disgruntled Met musician. "Where are the likes of Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel and Sir Colin Davis?" With Levine leading 78 performances this season, there is always the possibility that the orchestra will grow stale. Says Met Conductor Jeffrey Tate: "All orchestras like guests. They see Jimmy all the time, and there is a great danger for both of them in this. They must loathe...
...transforming effect--which he had on those who knew him. One can only, I suppose, recite facts--as the article necessarily did: prizes won, honors attained, public accomplishments, grade-point averages. What gets lost in all of that is David's astonishing completeness, the way scientist and friend and musician and neighbor all fit together; and the unending concern he had for others. We had become used to the fact that he had left this community, to go on, we all knew, to more accomplishments. We cannot comprehend the fact that he is now irrevocably gone...
...detailed portrait it paints of one of the most celebrated--and complicated--characters of our time. Because so many writers sketch Lennon from so many angles, you get a feeling of completeness and accuracy rare in most biographies of popular artists. Rolling Stone writers saw Lennon the musician, the radical and the husband/father. Lennon the film maker, the thinker and the Beatles. Their visions add up to present a man who created without compromise, without abandoning his convictions. The portrait shows how tragic it is that Lennon died before his time with so much more left to give...
...Jackson of Night and Day comes across as a more mature and accomplished musician. Some will surely belittle his new, less harsh approach as an act of compromise. Surely others will focus their attention on the shades of mainline pop amid the bells and synthesizers. For the most part, though, this is not pop, but Jackson's unique blend of traditional jazz and some more contemporary styles. But often he does smack a bit too sentimental. Songs like the sappy, emotional "Breaking Us In Two" ("They say two hearts should beat as one for us...") prove a bit hard...