Word: musicianse
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His international reputation and association with Western musicians like Yehudi Menuhin and former Beatle George Harrison (with whom Shankar appeared at the Woodstock festival in 1969) have contributed to increasing the popularity of Indian music in the West.
But while the student body that throngs to Harvard Square has changed, the geography remains the same. Superficially, things look different. In 1943, "there weren't as many street musicians" says Chayes. "And of course, there weren't the homeless--or twelve-year-old people with mohawks."
Never a band per se, Steely Dan was actually a constellation of crack musicians that revolved around the core of Walter Becker, who played guitar and bass, and Donald Fagen, whose keyboards and reedy, world-weary vocals helped give Steely Dan its inimitable sound. The duo reached a stylistic apotheosis...
The performances by the Hawthorne String Quartet and other New England-based musicians are brisk and idiomatic. But such considerations are almost irrelevant in light of the music's larger issues. "If we consider the demands of the programs, together with the strains on the artists who live in new...
The group is also exploring less conventional means for attacking cultural complacency. Attracting lots of attention this past Arts First weekend, Agitprop staged a "multi-media extravaganza." Cheerleaders, the Parliamentary Speech and Debate Society. The South Asian Dance Company, and the Wireless Club took turns on stage while the Texas...