Word: singed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will work out to a minimum wage over the last eight years." Adds Don: "We had to go outside of America, to a place where black music and older soul singers are revered. Remember, not only were these guys black in a supposedly white band; they didn't even sing in the modern black style. They were out of vogue...
...exploded into the biggest uproar since a mob stormed the fortress prison to begin the French Revolution of 1789. Some of the brightest stars in the world of music noisily opened fire in support of Barenboim. Jessye Norman, the stately Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned as vice president...
...paying its way with an assembly line of up to 250 performances a season. Barenboim agreed to take a substantial pay cut, but the arguments over artistic control remained insoluble. "I am not willing to accept the chief executive of a couture house telling me who is best to sing a particular role," Barenboim told a press conference...
...truth is it anyway? Every film -- or every biography or news report or memory -- is distorted, if only by one's perceptions. To create art is to pour fact into form; and sometimes the form shapes the facts. William Randolph Hearst never said "Rosebud," and Evita Peron didn't sing pop, and Richard III was probably a swell guy, no matter how Shakespeare libeled him. This is what artists do: shape ideas and grudges and emotions into words and sounds and pictures. They see "historical accuracy" as a creature of ideological fashion. Artists take the long view; they figure their...
...professorial badinage and flamboyant dramatic monologues. But it is Davies' own voice that seems most memorable: confident, unhurried, interested and amused. Late in the novel, on the brink of the opera's opening night, the narrative pauses briefly to consider Oliver Twentyman, a trouper in his 80s who will sing the role of Merlin the magician: "He liked being old -- and still a great artist. Age, linked with achievement, was a splendid crown to life." So it is, as this novel and Davies' remarkable career munificently demonstrate...