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...word about the pianist. He's big. Buff. With dreads. He sits lower at the piano than Glenn Gould did. It's often hard to count the "f"s in his fortes. That's Awadagin. In other words, after Maurizio Pollini's recital last month, it was "time for something completely different...
Davis, the daughter of a black father (jazz pianist Walter Davis Jr.) and a white mother (part-time jazz singer Anna Schonfield), says she never fit in with any particular racial group when she was growing up in New York City's arty Greenwich Village. "I identify with both and neither at the same time," she says. "I figure I exist as an eraser for the lines that are drawn between the races...
...deep in concentration--deep enough that you might mistake him for the young pianist David Helfgott from the movie "Shine"--but he's also smiling...
...blood, spreading from an unseen source, blots the frigidly hygienic, monochromatic polish of Gattaca; a conventionally romantic evening at a piano recital turns suddenly surreal with the appearance of an immaculate six-fingered glove, followed by a swift, eerie close-up of a black-and-white poster of the pianist's hands. Not long afterwards there's a moment of dizzying tension in which Vincent/Jerome, bereft of his contact lenses, halts before crossing a manically busy street, and we suddenly see the blurred, flashing lights through his myopic eyes...
Cuba-based artists, who are considered ambassadors of Castro's revolution, are frequent targets of exile wrath. When jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba performed in downtown Miami in April 1996, a crowd of 200 demonstrators spat on concertgoers as they tried to enter the theater. Three months later, a few days before singer Rosita Fornes, 74, was scheduled to perform at a popular night spot, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez...