Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaks about her projects with the enthusiasm and slang teenagers might use to refer to the latest fashions or music videos. She says that her Chinese composition will be "really cool" and declares with the insolence of a Vogue fashion editor that she is drawn toward shorter pieces because "symphonies are just not in anymore...
Like the tango, Lan insists that many of her current interests and projects were picked up quite by accident. She is teaching herself Japanese because she won a summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York...
With little money, his mother struggled to provide opportunities for her son's inclinations, cultivating his early interests in numbers, baseball, tennis and music--all things which would stick with him throughout his life...
Indeed, more than economics, music seems to have been a primary love in his early years...
...band toured the country, but Greenspan knew that someday the music would end, and he planned accordingly...