Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rivalry began, at least in the mind of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' resident whiz kid, a musician of abundant compositional gifts and emotional fragility. The Beatles went to work on the album that would become the single greatest mainstream breakthrough in all of rock. Wilson, simultaneously, was in the studio working on a record called Smile that would turn into rock's most notorious grail. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band made history. Smile never made it out of the studio...
...find themselves scrambling for survival is ironic, for they are without a doubt the best in the world. The U.S. can boast at least two dozen ensembles that are better than all but a handful of European orchestras. Foreign conductors routinely rave about the quality of the American orchestral musician and applaud the high level of professional music education in the U.S. "In Europe we always have had the impression that the teaching in America is stronger and more serious," says conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, who takes the helm in Philadelphia next season...
...wonder if this makes me a better musician, though," he added...
...hush-hush, unofficial" word that she has a job. Even if she doesn't though, she has her sights set on the long term. Toomer wants to sing "pop R & B," preferably "funk and soul." ("Does that sound terrible?" she asks laughing.) She hopes to be both a solid musician and a "great performer." And, above all, she wants to be a star...
Snow, a computer science concentrator, says he will work for a small publishing company in Boston, although he eventually hopes to become a musician...