Word: musicians
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DIED. Art Pepper, 56, gifted but tortured jazz musician who established himself as a top alto saxophonist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the late 1940s and early 1950s and for years waged a war against his drug habit, which he detailed in his 1979 autobiography, Straight Life; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. He once said of his reliance on heroin to relieve his anguish and self-doubt: "If this is what it takes, then this is what I'm going to do, whatever dues I have to pay." During one 16-year period, he marked more time...
...singer and two guitarists belonged to a tiny circle of stubborn white blues players headed by Alexis Komer, himself a guitarist and leader of band called Blues Incorporated. Komer, though a talented musician, was destined to leave his mark as a matchmaker, not a performer. By letting punks like Jagger, Richards and Jones sit in with Blues Inc., he gave them an opportunity to prove they were as good as they said they were...
...They dance with an easy amplitude, buoyant lightness and total technical command. There is no empty reverence. To American eyes, the Kirov Chopiniana (called Les Sylphides here) is startling because it is performed seemingly in a sunlit field instead of in a cathedral at midnight. Every Kirov dancer and musician knows a common musical idiom as well. The orchestra takes blithe liberties with tempos-flying allegros, subaqueous adagios-that are a shock to ears accustomed to stricter counts. One needs an entire performance of Swan Lake to absorb the confident, even radical, musical style...
...number of leading authors pursued their careers during the German years with no apparent misgivings. A writer concerned with nothing more political than the relations between the seven could publish books in a Paris dominated by Swastikas, just as an actor could mouth someone else's words, a musician perform concert music without intelligible content...
...recently chose a new music director, it reached across the Atlantic to select Christoph von Dohnányi, a German of Hungarian descent who is head of the Hamburg State Opera. It is a familiar story. Once again a major U.S. conducting post has gone to a foreign-born musician. Where are all the Americans...