Word: organized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just one idea," says Roberta. "Whatever it was, I told myself, 'This is it.' " She took everything slow and steady, step by step. While she was growing up in Arlington, Va., her father worked as a draftsman and her mother as a public school cook who played organ at a local church. By the time she was nine, Roberta was playing for the Sunday school; at age eleven she was sitting in for Mom at the 11 o'clock service. She entered Howard University on a partial music scholarship at 15, and at 20 was teaching music...
...grins triumphantly, as if to explain that that's of course how it would come out. Around him the Mather House dining room is converting to its night-time role: a small forest of music stands has popped up; guitar amps, an organ, and drums are lugged in; the pianist is jamming with the two flutes; the crew checks the stage lighting, fading in and out on the three performers doing their warm-ups. Tom Johnson, the music director, stops by to check details, as do five others in the next fifteen minutes. The room is noisy and alive...
...Organ Recital by Hans Otto. Works of Buxtehude. Guilaine and Max Reger. Memorial Church, 8:30, April 14. Free...
WHAT DO OUR eyes see in the move that our ears couldn't hear on the record? Well there's the time during "That's the Way God Planned It" that Billy Preston leaps from behind his organ and runs across the stage as though God has indeed given him the call, and we get to see, really see. Ringo Starr singing in tune on "It Don't Come Easy." And then we get to view the surprising calm with which Leon Russell goes through the entire show, a look of distance on his face, wondering perhaps...
Most of the doctors who perform psychosurgery are enthusiastic about it but believe it is a desperation measure. Many agree with Dr. H. Thomas Ballantine Jr. of Massachusetts General Hospital that "the brain is no longer a sacred organ, excluded from surgical therapy because it supposedly houses the human soul." But few believe that psychosurgery should be performed casually...