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DIED. Earl Kenneth ("Fatha") Nines, 77, jazz pianist for 50 years and a seminal figure in American popular music, who in the 1920s severed the piano from its ragtime connections and pioneered a distinctive new sound; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif. As leader of his own big band for two decades, he nurtured such future jazz stars as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan...
Even the most novice musician gets a chance at a recital, but very few got to perform alone before a concert half crowded with Latin American diplomats, as pianist Min Chung '86 did during spring break...
...footsteps-but in 1930 picked up the baton and became best known as a master of conducting precision; after a heart attack; in Antibes, France. Markevitch advocated the use of standardized gestures on the podium, saying, "Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. Certain movements produce certain sounds...
Some 10 wealthy passengers have each paid $15,000 for a 10-day cruise through the Mediterranean aboard the Narcissus. The luxurious ship provides both musical and gastronomical delights. A virtuoso pianist and a renowned diva perform nightly to passengers who dine on gourmet food and turn adulterous in the moonlight. Indeed, affair after affair develops among the passengers...
...protagonist of her newest novel A Severed Wasp, the retired pianist Katherine Forrester Vigneras, last appeared as an aspiring teenage artist in L 'Engle's first published novel. The Small Rain. "I always knew I would go on and find out what happened to Katherine later in life," she says, "but I had to grow up enough to find out first." The same half whimsical treatment of her creations carries through to the minor characters, such as one Felix Bodeway who becomes Katherine's closest friend in A Severed Wasp after playing a decidedly tangential role in her youth...