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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Portraits in Blue, Roberts gives Gershwin's material the full post-Armstrong treatment; simply put, he makes it swing. Even the famous opening--the skyward clarinet glissando--is given a new twist. Roberts instead starts the piece with what he calls "a series of improvised statements," the first being the forlorn sound of a single banjo. Gershwin's 1920s piano rolls have set a high standard for pianists to follow, but Roberts' performance on this CD adds some graceful verve. His fleet-fingered improvisations--constant, probing, thoughtful--provide color to an already multihued work without seeming merely ornamental. After hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SHADES OF BLUE | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...horrendous weather sent scores skyward across the board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Linksters Finish Seventh | 4/9/1996 | See Source »

...touch with us, his message may well be received first in a quiet rural setting 30 miles northwest of Boston. There, atop a hill overlooking a snow-covered apple orchard and the frozen remnants of a pumpkin patch, a dish-shaped antenna, 84 ft. across, faces skyward, attuned to the murmurings of the cosmos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LISTENING FOR ALIENS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

THIS STORY READ MORE LIKE CONFIRMAtion of Noah's Deluge than Darwin's theory of evolution. ''Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward...'' Then you report that mud slides poured into the sea, entombing preternatural creatures that became fossilized. With all this evidence, it would be easier to prove Noah's flood than evolution. DEMBIE COPENHAVER Newville, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...STARRY NIGHT IN 1610, IN THE city of Padua, Italy, Galileo Galilei pointed his newly handmade telescope skyward, stared into the eyepiece and gasped in excitement. Through the lenses of the world's first astronomical telescope, four white spots were clearly visible floating near a brightly shining planet. Galileo had discovered Jupiter's four major moons, the first (except for Earth's own moon) ever seen around a planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY JUPITER, IT'S GALILEO! | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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