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...band grandeur, two trombones from the band crossed slides, hurling more syncopated grace at the dancer. With sudden fear, his feet were not his own but those of another, less laden with curiosity and daring. A missed beat turned into a shuffle, a pause, and then a failed pitch at recovery.No one could fault the loser. A dance duel created through Architecture in Helsinki smacks of peril. An eight-mate, endlessly-outfitted ensemble that defies genre, the group left no instruments unplayed. What began the night as a guitar, a bass, some drums, some voices, and a piano evolved...
...Learning from New Orleans I am a 62-year-old white woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps...
...there. But this time around, he is not simply going through the motions. Every note is important, and he forces the audience to listen to every move he makes. The notes themselves are often secondary to the silences, the stutters, the phrases, and everything else that connects one pitch to another...
Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) John Pistole visited the campus of Harvard Business School (HBS) yesterday to describe the bureau’s evolution in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001 and pitch the FBI’s new job opportunities to HBS students...
Learning from New Orleans I am a 62-year-old white woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps...