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Onstage, James Williams is a relaxed presence, with a genuine smile and a slight trace of a Southern drawl. Originally from Memphis, home not only of the blues but also of his strong influence, the jazz piano legend Phineas Newborn, Jr. He is a main figure in the current vanguard of middle-generation jazz pianists who often suffer neglect as the media's spotlight falls on young lions and old masters. That is why Friday's concert was a fascinating twist; the middle man was the star, with older and younger in strong supportive roles...
Schnittke's rise to prominence is a tribute to his artistic integrity. His slight frame, perilous health (he has suffered two strokes and a heart attack) and diffident demeanor mask a revolutionary sensibility. As an iconoclast in a country of enforced artistic conformity, Schnittke represented for many of his Soviet countrymen a kind of artistic glasnost long before Gorbachev made it permissible. Stylistically unpredictable and resolutely uncompromising -- there are no "Socialist Realist" elements in his music, no compositions celebrating factories at work or peasants at play -- Schnittke's music is fundamentally deconstructive. It uses the past as raw material...
...ground, the Rangers saw that Wolcott could not have crashed in a worse position. Smashed like a broken eggshell, the cockpit had hopelessly entangled the body of the pilot. To make matters worse, the craft had come to rest on a slight rise in the street, exposing anyone near it to the Somalis' devastating cross fire. "Dust got in my eyes from so many bullets popping off the walls," recalled Specialist John Waddell...
...slight scare, but fortunately, the outcome proved not to be too exciting," said Gold...
While the proponents of Radcliffe (as a college) maintain that its elimination would represent a direct slight to "our own history as a women's college," its elimination would actually only bring these proponents up to date with reality. All the programs and research projects in the world won't make Radcliffe a college, especially after the 1977 Agreement, when it turned over all responsibility "for the instruction and for the day-to-day management of undergraduate affairs" to Harvard...