Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually playing the banjo not by fretting, but by twisting the tuners on the head of the instrument. B‚la even went as far as to fret a note with his nose. He brought his brand blues to new realms, showing not only new territories where music could go, but also where it could come from...
...finally an encore was played with Bela on zither banjo, Coffin on flute, "Future Man" tapping a Spanish percussion box and Victor Wooten on cello. The final piece encapsulated the best thing that this concert offered--a chance to see some really down-to-earth guys play some incredible music while making the audience laugh all along...
...Hilde he overcomes his fear of hights in a gesture of self-reviving hubris as a stagelight casts an almost messianic shadow on the back of the stage. Set and lighting, in fact, hold Ibsen's character-oriented play to a high-wire of beauty. Piping classical music brings out a gracile quatro of stage hands between acts one and two: They lay out light-cobalt platforms which in turn absorb a dull, icy lighting scheme. As the A.R.T.'s actors quickly sketch their tragedy (an uber-fable about ambition and hubricguilt), its stagecraft is relentlessly Scandinavian, so that...
...funny how money changes situations," chants hip-hop ingenue Lauryn Hill on the album that won her five Grammy Awards. And the 23-year-old's record-breaking sweep confirms the point -- the music industry knows where its bread is buttered. With rap music traditionally confined to its own Grammy niche, Hill's breakthrough in such categories as Best Album and Best New Artist came after a year in which hip-hop acts sold twice as many albums as their rock 'n' roll counterparts...
...they're supposed to be acclaimed artists. But this gives me hope for the future of the Grammys." Of course the industry's pundits may have some trouble decoding the genre-bending messages from Wednesday's award ceremony -- Shania Twain's close-cropped black-leather stylings confirmed that country music has wandered far from the range; Burt Bacharach picked up his third pop Grammy in as many decades; and Best Hip-Hop Album went to Jay-Z, who combined ghetto-reality lyrics with a chorus from the musical "Annie...