Word: standin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every room, 12 telephones and a swimming pool. If anything, his convictions became more firmly entrenched: "Tell everybody that Muhammad Ali ain't licked yet. I say damn the fights and damn all the money. A man's got to stand up for what he believes, and I'm standin' up for my people even if I have to go to jail...
...life was almost worse than inside: "The board would tell me, 'Stay away from nightclubs.' Now how was I gonna play music if I couldn't go near no nightclubs? One time they got me a job with a seed company in Lompoc. They had me standin' there with a brush this long, pollinatin' flowers. I was a human bee. If a brother had ever seen me doin' that, he'd cut me dead...
...concerts and was on the podium at its spring recording sessions. The first results, Ives' Three Places in New England and Ruggles' Sun-Treader, soon to be released on a DGG LP, is 20th century music making at its best. Having established himself as a splendid standin, Thomas was asked to fly to London on short notice in May to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra. He was brilliant, especially in Stravinsky's Huxley Variations, a fiercely difficult musical mosaic that he seamed together with high craftsmanship. Said Stuart Knussen, principal double bass and board chairman...