Word: percussionist
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...Cooper, a percussionist, is removed from the display case, its ownership is contested by a woman dressed in a Saint Laurent original who loudly protests Elton's locust-like purchasing. "I saw that yesterday and I said I was actively interested," she says, scowling at Elton. But with $7,000 worth of merchandise on the block, the men of Cartier ignore her protest. "Being interested," smiles Elton as he signs a check, "is not the same as buying...
Works of lves, Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven. Maxine Warshauer, Pianist, and Sarah Tenney, Percussionist; Kirkland...
...music of what sounds like an orchestra of violins. A serious student of this century's champion fiddlers throughout Britain, he is able to recreate, for example, a dazzling fiddle tune in half a dozen incarnations representing different fiddling traditions. Cathal McConnel and Robin Morton, their champion flutist and percussionist, have rich, lilting voices to match their meticulous musicianship. The group's original guitarist, Dick Gaughan, has been replaced in the last year by, I believe, another Scot or a Welshman. Together, they can call upon an amazing variety of musical backgrounds...
...full of references to "latin style" riffs or themes. A new tune, called "Sometime Ago" moved through several varied themes and each had a distinctly Spanish/Latin/South American tint. The first band, also called Return to Forever, had that same tint--reed man Joe Farrell, singer Flora Purim, and percussionist Airto Moreira were three-fourths of a band that lived its only album title--Light as a Feather...
Three years ago, he toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist-and was severely chastised by Conductor Leonard Bernstein when he set off a rack of sleigh bells out of tempo, ruining the first movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. More recently he rode the high trapeze for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and, as a one-line badman in a yet-to-be-released western (Rio Lobo), he was shot and killed by John Wayne, who never could decide whether the tall (6 ft. 4 in.) bit player's name was Plimpleton, Pembleton...