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...excellence, which has included exclusive interviews with Ronald Reagan, Corazon Aquino and Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam. Our coverage ranged from the protracted agony of South Africa to the outpouring of People Power in the Philippines, the tragedy of Challenger to the triumph of Voyager, the classical genius of Pianist Vladimir Horowitz to the postmodern wit of Pop Singer David Byrne. And we continue to receive accolades from our peers. In 1986 TIME won the National Magazine Award for excellence in design, and the Overseas Press Club singled out TIME photographers for the Olivier Rebbot Award for photographic reporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 2, 1987 | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Some graduates continue in the field of their undergraduate work. Perhaps some of the passages in "West Side Story" were developed while Leonard Bernstein '39 was writing his thesis on "The Absorption of Race Elements into American Music". The conductor, pianist, composer and teacher penciled on the back of one of the pages, "I wonder what critics in 1975 will have to say on a young American composer...

Author: By Gil Citro, | Title: Theses of the Rich and Famous | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

Most of the orgies feature selections from WHRB's regular programming with an emphasis on classical and jazz music. The classical collection includes a 20-hour orgy on the pianist Arthur Rubinstein and a 10-hour series of requiems. The jazz selections include Herbie Hancock, Weather Report and Benny Good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Begins Orgy Season | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...improvements: an enlarged lobby, a cream-and-gold repainting of the main hall, new seats and elevators, and a modern air-conditioning system. The reopening of the hall last week was celebrated with a gala concert that featured performances by Stern, Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne, Frank Sinatra and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. The real star of the evening, however, was the legendary Carnegie sound itself. The critical consensus: richer and more crystal clear than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1986 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...tribute to "my poor dear, dead dad," and that is pretty much what she provides. Billy Henshaw inherits sole responsibility for his young daughter after his wife and son die during the influenza epidemic that swept through Britain in World War I. "My dad always called himself not a pianist but a pianoplayer," Ellen recalls. "Pianoplayer gives you the idea of him and the instrument being like all one thing, jammed together." Billy makes his way by accompanying the silent films at a Manchester movie house during the mid-1920s. Unfortunately, he possesses not only an artistic temperament that rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow the Pianoplayers | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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