Word: musicians
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During the last hours of his life, Hutchence made another phone call--to Irish musician Bob Geldof, ex-husband of Paula Yates, Hutchence's girlfriend. Geldof and Yates, a flamboyant television talk-show host, went through a disconcertingly modern separation two years ago. As part of the settlement, Yates, already linked to Hutchence, moved back into Geldof's home with her new lover, and Geldof took up residence in Hutchence's Chelsea home, a mile away. The detente didn't last. Since last year, Yates and Geldof have been in a custody dispute over their three children. Hutchence wanted Yates...
...other five members, Duritz says he realizes that he has found something very rare in Counting Crows. "I don't want to be a solo-artist," he says. "We know that we're a band." Duritz says that he could write the most incredible lyrics and music, but without musicians who understand what he has written and who are able to follow his onstage changes and idiosyncrasies, the songs are worthless. "Look at Leonard Cohen," says Duritz. "He's an incredible song writer, but there is no musician talented enough to do justice to what he has written." Some...
...former Beatle isn't the only rock musician currently trying his hand at classical composition--Billy Joel announced in September that his plans include not only working on Broadway but also composing Rachmaninoff-like solo piano pieces--but Sir Paul sweeps the table when it comes to sheer audaciousness. McCartney, who cannot read music and readily confesses to having attended only a handful of classical concerts, has been no less forthright in acknowledging the extensive role played by four "musical associates." Jazz musician Steve Lodder and classical composer David Matthews transcribed and edited his original computerized keyboard noodlings; classical saxophonist...
...bars. The instrument, though held and played like a modern flute, is of black enamel, and considerably wider in diameter. Also fascinating were the horns, ancestors to the modern French horn, which had no stops and could only be played in the primary overtone series, manipulated by the musician through aperture control alone. The trumpets, which had no stops but recorder-like openings for pitch changes, had several beautiful fanfares in the L'Allegro passages of Parts...
Brustein grew up in Manhattan, New York. During his adolescent years and early twenties, he experimented as a musician and an actor...