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...fluent in, and jazz, with the freedom it gives him to improvise, helps him tap into a much wider range of emotions than words can provide him. "Derek communicates a lot through his music," says Ockelford. "It tends to be high-energy, ecstatic communication, but you can often tell how he's feeling from the way he plays. He could always play music expressively because he's heard people play expressively and he could copy them. But as he matures, his playing becomes more expressive of what he wants to tell...
What Paravicini can't tell you is his story, so Ockelford has told it for him. In his book, In the Key of Genius, published May 3, Ockelford recounts the extraordinary story of Paravicini's bizarre early lessons, his TV appearances and his concerts for charity (one at Buckingham Palace, another with the Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra) and ends with him playing Scott Joplin's The Entertainer to 12,000 people in Las Vegas last year. Paravicini, who is related through marriage to Prince Charles' wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, was only 5 years old when he and Ockelford first...
...would ask the Congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn't really mean that...
Still, the U.S. may at last be seeing signs of progress. Compared with the streets last fall, residents tell me, a relative calm has returned to Mansour. Fewer bodies are being found every day, and it is no longer routine to see gunmen shouldering rocket launchers in the street. One reason the violence has subsided, of course, is that many of the neighborhoods that saw the bloodiest sectarian cleansing are no longer mixed...
That is a tough one. I don't want to tell an 11-year-old to scour the Internet for all the horrible stories. But I think this child's desire to help is very heartening. Keep asking that question, and a lot of answers will come...