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...That's going to be a lot of fun," Brinton said. "We're going to be watching results as they come in on the big screen. All the big swing states are going down...
...That said, living in a swing state became exhausting in the last days of the campaign. Just ask Dave Shand, 45, of Saline, Mich., who was constantly pestered by pollsters, like the one he told he was a registered voter planning to go Republican. Shand is a left-leaning Canadian citizen. "You know that 3 percent-to-4 percent margin of error?" he says. "That...
...core, Bagger Vance is a serious exploration of the search for meaning in life (in other words, this ain't Tin Cup). Bagger says it best when he explains to Hardy that inside every person is something that belongs to him alone-an "authentic swing" which can't be found, only remembered. And that's what this film is all about. Call it a story about finding something that was lost. Call it a story of personal examination, of exorcising demons and confronting the ghosts of the past. Call it an old-fashioned love story-only with golfers...
...Throughout these years, besides writing music that he describes as a "beautiful amalgam of Stravinsky and Schoenberg," Schuller followed closely the fascinating developments in jazz. "In those days, you could hear a tremendous amount of jazz on the radio. This was the heyday of the swing era; jazz was the total popular music of the United States...When I first heard [Duke Ellington], I knew right away, and declared that he was just as great as Beethoven. I still stand by that. If you analyze that music, in terms of the quality and the inspiration of the music, you come...
...Lenox School of Jazz, and was artistic director of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood for a number of years. As president of the New England Conservatory of Music from 1967 to 1977, he started groundbreaking jazz and ragtime programs. His various books, such as Early Jazz, The Swing Era and Horn Technique, have also been widely praised as landmarks in musical scholarship...