Word: musicians
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This spring, Gerwin and Myriam R. Farkouh '93 organized students to work with Boland, a street musician who was homeless for several years and now lives in Central Square. Since the St. Paul's shelter closing, Boland has spearheaded community efforts to find a new drop-in shelter...
...German maestro Kurt Masur, currently the conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Masur, 62, is a Kapellmeister in the best Central European tradition, and it was exactly this quality that appealed to the Philharmonic's search committee, which for the first time also included some of the orchestra's musicians. "He had an institutional commitment to the Gewandhaus that he was prepared to bring to New York," said orchestra chairman Stephen Stamas. Translation: Masur, whose five-year contract begins with the 1992-93 season -- the Philharmonic's 150th anniversary -- is no glamorous international jet-setter but a solid and sober...
Ferris, who studied as an undergraduate with noted musician Marcel Dupre at the University of Chicago, said he was retiring because he has been at the job for a long time and would like to see "some new blood come along and rejuvenate the place...
...50th anniversary of his death as a fitting day for a homecoming. During his visit to Washington last week, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki visited Paderewski's grave in Arlington Cemetery. Whenever his bones are returned, his heart will remain in the U.S. -- literally. Following family wishes, the musician's heart has been enshrined since 1986 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Doylestown, Pa., and there it shall stay...
...1960s he was pictured on a top-selling poster sitting on a toilet. In the '70s he penned the foul-mouthed rock classic Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. Small wonder, then, that the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has had a hard time getting mainstream airplay. But the times they are a-changin', and Financial News Network is betting the cult hero is ready for prime time. This week Zappa debuts as guest host on FNN: Focus, an interview show. As his opening topic, Zappa will explore opportunities for U.S. businesses in the Soviet Union. The 49-year-old renegade...