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Musician Eric Rosser intended to die in Bangkok, the "City of Angels." Here, the former piano player for faded American rock star John Mellencamp found a haven. He had an attractive Thai wife, a young son, a luxury apartment and what he once described as the best gig in town: playing piano at the century-old Oriental Hotel's Bamboo Bar. The city's monied set showered him with invitations to cocktail parties and they enrolled their kids at the thriving Rosser Piano Studio. "This is a fulfilling life," Rosser told the Bloomington Herald Times, his Indiana hometown paper...
...friend,' not 'Here is the Israeli person.'" Ballin says she feels the same way, while admitting that she finds it hard to hear others criticizing her country, "even though I do this myself." Saleem Abboud, 25, is a Palestinian Israeli who was discovered by Edward Said playing piano in Nazareth. Now based in Berlin, he has attended all four West-Eastern Divan gatherings, the first held in the German city of Weimar in 1999. "The way we talk to each other is as important as concrete matters like withdrawal or dividing Jerusalem," he says. "The orchestra is an attempt...
Fuchs, who studied German in high school and in his first year at Harvard, spent a summer playing jazz piano in Berlin before his sophomore year...
...accident, the two improvised on a jazz tune on the piano together for the first year talent show...
...Could be he's just too damn stubborn to die. He may see the Oldies Show of rock 'n roll pioneers as a last-man-standing competition, in which he is determined to outlive Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino and other pretenders to the throne - the jewel-encrusted piano stool - he always believed was his. You know what he said back in 1977 when he heard Elvis had died? "Another one outta...