Word: tigrett
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...fact, the Tigrett Corp. of Arlington, Va., in a program called Leadership Lessons from History, gives participants a chance to commune hypothetically with Honest Abe and other great leaders. The sessions are billed as metaphors for dealing with contemporary management problems. Tigrett's most popular program, at about $1,000 a person, is a workshop at the Civil War battlefields in Gettysburg, Pa. On the fields that saw 51,000 men killed or wounded, groups of executives listen to a Lincoln impersonator, clad in black and wearing a stovepipe hat, field questions about his critical decisions...
Roberts's poster-size painting, which Arroyo said depicted a skeleton in a flamenco outfit, originally belonged to the private collection of House of Blues founder Isaac Tigrett...
...Cambridge club is the original House of Blues and the smallest, Arroyo said. Most of the pieces at the Cambridge location originally belonged to Tigrett...
...blown away by the article on the [nightclub and restaurant chain] House of Blues [MUSIC, July 1]. I could not believe that its founder, Isaac Tigrett, suggested the black community had turned its back on the blues music genre. How could this middle-aged yuppie white man make an intelligent assessment of the role blues has in our community? Blues is a result of the racism, poverty and hopelessness felt in the black ghetto, experiences Tigrett has never been familiar with. For the record, blues music was never ignored by the black community; it has simply manifested itself in different...
...When I asked an older gentleman why more in his community didn't attend, he put his hand on my shoulder and said solemnly, "Son, my people have been livin' the blues for 200 years; most see no sense spending their time listening to it." I agree with Isaac Tigrett's comment that it is a tragedy "the black community abandoned the blues and the audience became white." Bravo to Tigrett for taking this American art form out of the little clubs and into the world! PHIL LOBEL Los Angeles