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...youngest of four brothers, Collins grew up on a small farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. His father, in addition to raising cows and sheep, was a serious musician who collected folk songs and taught at a nearby women's college. His mother, who educated him at home until he was nine, wrote plays, which were performed at a small theater the couple started in an oak grove on their farm. "When Francis was seven," his father recalls, "he wrote a full script for The Wizard of Oz and directed its performance." He played bluegrass and Bach on the pump...
...computer to computer, musician to listener, and everybody's a performance artist. For Gabriel and Rundgren, interactive rock is not just a career move; it is a techno-mission...
...this is a necessary evil. Beauty Is A Rare Thing is an amazing collection of the work of an amazing musician. The set comes with a well-written 72-page booklet that features about twenty-pages of quotes (lots of predictable stuff such as, "I don't know what he's playing, but I know it's not jazz...") and a couple of decent essays...
Onstage, as they proved in their Sanders Theatre show November 22, the Flecktones are an amazingly dynamic and electrifying group: each musician has intense, complete control and amazing technical mastery of his instrument...
Joshua picked up the sax at 10, but was less comfortable blowing notes than hitting the books. "I never wanted to be a professional musician," he says. "I saw how hard it was for my father to succeed." Intending to be a doctor or lawyer, he moved to Boston in 1987 after being accepted at Harvard. There, to break up the day-to-day Ivy League grind, he spent hours learning riffs from recordings of great saxophonists like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and gigged with friends around town. Two years ago, Yale Law School accepted him, but Redman...