Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekend nights, when teenagers crowd the sidewalks, the left and the right, the hippies and the preppies and the punks, negotiate a peaceful coexistence. Often the snub-nosed Groton girls stand alongside the skate rats from Somerville High, all of them listening to the soulful entreaty of a street musician...
While Harvard Square street performers have been spending much of their time recently at City Council meetings promoting new legislation, a new publication authored by longtime Square musician Luke Hunsberger attempts to return the focus to what the performers do best...
Each of the three operas, brilliantly staged by German director and designer Achim Freyer, offers a penetrating portrait of a man whose life changed the ways in which humanity looks at the world: Einstein, the scientist and amateur musician; Gandhi, the inspirational political leader (Satyagraha was the term for his nonviolent resistance movement); and Akhnaten, the putatively monotheistic Pharaoh. Each work is linked musically as well, with motifs from Einstein popping up in the later operas...
...about the importance of personal relationships in foreign affairs. The Soviet President's policy is not immune to the influence of likes and dislikes -- far from it. The deadlock between Moscow and Vilnius has been worsened by Gorbachev's distaste for Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, whom he calls the "musician" (that was in fact Landsbergis' initial profession, but Gorbachev uses the term scathingly to imply a bumbling amateurism in politics). In summitry, however, the Soviet President's motto could be the Russian proverb "Sluzhba sluzhboi, druzhba druzhboi" (Business is business, friendship is friendship). If the two happen to coincide...
Heat, broadcast nightly from New York City, offers late headlines and single-issue shows intended to mesmerize young news junkies. One recent edition addressed the transformation of the South African theater. The guests included the cast of the play Survival, musician Hugh Masakela and, from Johannesburg, novelist Nadine Gordimer. "We want to erase the artificial line between intellectual and creative expression," says host John Hockenberry. "We want the show to be a place where the left brain and the right brain can unwind together." That's a tall order. Can the live wires at NPR deliver? Stay tuned...