Word: musicianse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At present, there are 24 young musicians signed to the studio, most found through ads in the trades or auditions; many are from the Orlando area, where performers now flock because of the increasing film and television production at Disney and Universal, as well as all the singing and dancing...
River of Song isn't documentary broccoli. The viewer isn't assailed with dates and events, fussy terminology and black-and-white daguerreotypes with accompanying narration by overly earnest Hollywood actors. The story is told through a series of punchy personal portraits of the musicians who live in the cities...
The musicians here are generally not superstars, although such nationally known acts as Soul Asylum and the Mississippi Mass Choir do make appearances. And a few of the performers featured deserve a shot on Leno or Conan O'Brien, chief among them the spirited New Orleans hip-hop brass band...
AWG: I do think that Steve Martin wrote it [Picasso at the Lapin Agile] with 20/20 hindsight, of course, looking back on the 20th century. One of the most poignant lines of the play is "Ah, the 20th century, the works of artists and musicians dominated the works of politicians...
DIED. CLAYTON ("Peg Leg") BATES, 91, one-legged tap dancer; in Fountain Inn, S.C. Bates didn't let an accident that severed his leg at the age of 12 keep him from dancing. Wearing a wooden limb outfitted with metal taps, he hoofed from the 1920s to 1989; appeared in...