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...exactly the right pitch every time. In a musical family like mine, the person with the best pitch is the quarterback, the beauty queen and the genius rolled into one. We sing a lot in my family, and those members with perfect pitch always get to carry the tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Musicians | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...your child has extraordinary musical talent, it will be evident; genius has a way of announcing itself. But even if your child isn't the next Mozart, he will develop a fine sense of pitch and learn to carry a tune and love music. In my family the perfect pitch skipped from my mother to my daughter, missing me. But that didn't stop me from making a living as a lounge singer for a while or from belting out some pretty good show tunes in the shower. My daughter, with her scary dog hearing and perfect pitch, can tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Musicians | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...name it, she's got it). Every number, be it Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Come, All Ye Faithful or Benjamin Britten's Corpus Christi Carol, is sung with stylish grace and disarming sincerity. And unlike most classical singers, Von Otter knows how to make a pop tune swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Home For Christmas: Anne Sofie von Otter | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...game is an especially important one as Harvard concludes its tune-up for an upcoming barrage of Ivy League games. The Crimson will play 14 of its last 15 games against league foes. It sees tomorrow as one if its last chances to knock heads with a quality team before its season heats...

Author: By Andrew S. Brunswick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Looks for Third Straight | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Softbank-affiliated company. So is online grocer Webvan, whose initial public offering three weeks ago soared 66% on Day One. So too is Global Sports, which just launched shopping sites for Athlete's Foot and a host of other sporting-goods stores. And so on, to the tune of more than $40 billion in around 130 companies (even Softbank executives have trouble counting) or by various estimates, about 10% of the companies that do business on the Web. And that was yesterday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masayoshi Son: Emperor of the Internet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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