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...traumatized, though. The Lit & Arts workload will make you feel better. You study by putting on a Walkperson and sitting under an oak tree, the sounds of Coltrane's soprano saxophone surrounding you. You meditate on how "A Love Supreme" influenced countless other jazz musicians...

Author: By Steven J. Newman, | Title: CONCENTRATION! | 2/28/1991 | See Source »

...scaled-down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by such soloists as pianist Jeffrey Kahane and soprano Dawn Upshaw) before the "Haffner" finale arrived as a kind of farewell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hats Off to A Genius! | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

What does America's space program have in common with a soprano saxophone? Quite a lot, when the instrument is played by Jane Ira Bloom, 35, a jazz virtuoso who was the first musician commissioned to create a work for NASA's art program. Witnessing a Discovery shuttle launch close up inspired her to compose a four-part suite entitled Rediscovery, which premiered at Cape Canaveral last fall. Long fascinated by the links between music and motion, Bloom has also composed scores for the famed Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Women: To Each Her Own | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...Blakey to form his own band in 1981, he has released a total of 12 jazz albums, and he has enough material in the can to fill eight or 10 more. On the classical side, he has done five recordings, and is now working on a baroque album with soprano Kathleen Battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wynton Marsalis: Horns of Plenty | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

BERLIOZ: LES NUITS D'ETE; MAHLER: SONGS (Bridge). The great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani's last recording renders almost palpable the feelings of yearning and fleeting gaiety, along with the elegiac beauty, that make these songs, and her art, imperishable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 10, 1990 | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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