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...told them. The masks would protect them for hours, even days if they could manage to change the filters. Once equipped, people went about their chores: women did the laundry, cleaned, or read the Bible in their rooms, even as a tank crashed through the front door, past the piano, the potato sacks and the propane tank barricaded against...
...greatness of the birthday girl is Ella Fitzgerald First Lady of Song (Verve), a three-CD anthology from her peak years, the late '40s through the mid-'60s. There are 51 songs, 20 previously unavailable on CD and seven never released before, including a ravishing version of the old piano plunker Heart and Soul. Fitzgerald can make the familiar fly and turn what's already classic into something timeless...
Inside, audience members did not see your average dining hall. They beheld a "Funking Hall," complete with raised stage (altar?), multicolored lights, DJ turntables, drums, synth, piano--nearly everything except the soulful musicians themselves...
Come on along, fiction lovers, James Wilcox writes your kind of book. GUEST OF , A SINNER (HarperCollins; $20), his sixth novel, is a funny, rambling chronicle of half a dozen people in New York City whom any sociologist would label misfits. Eric Thorsen gets by as a piano teacher and accompanist. His sister sells espresso machines at Macy's. Their father brews trouble. So do the people drawn to the Thorsens, mostly by Eric's good looks -- to which he is indifferent. Wilcox's skill is in taking the reader by the hand into his shaggy narrative and filling...
Associate Professor of Music Graeme Boone said Davis, who was nominated for a Grammy Award for his 1986 opera "'X'--The Life and Times of Malcolm X," is distinguished both for his jazz piano playing and his classical and jazz composition...