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Champagne flowed like tears at the Ninth Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, where praise bubbled as high as emotions. "We've been crying the whole weekend," confessed Lucille Ball, 75, who was feted along with Singer Ray Charles, 56, Actors Hume Cronyn, 75, and Jessica Tandy, 77, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 70, and Choreographer Antony Tudor, 78. A galvanizing high point of the gala (which will be shown on cbs next week) came with the singing of America, the Beautiful by the choir of Charles' alma mater, the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, joined by Stevie Wonder...
Daughter and father next fetch up in the English seacoast resort of Blackpool, where Billy has caught on with a music-hall troupe. He gets in trouble there too, falling for the company's soubrette, stage-named Maggie Paramour, who is married to a violinist in the same motley ensemble. Ellen, by this time nubile and knowing beyond her years, sees trouble coming from several directions, but not the sexual ambush by Mr. Flushing, whose wife owns the boarding house where she and her father stay and where Billy has fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After...
Last year a challenge to Windham Hill's hegemony sprang up with Private Music, a label founded by Peter Baumann, former keyboard player of the rock group Tangerine Dream. Two of Private Music's early releases are among the best New Age albums so far: Rock Violinist Jerry Goodman's high-flying On the Future of Aviation and the anthology Piano One, which features hypnotic solo performances by Jobson and Japan's Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others. "I like to ; describe the music as very visual," says the Berlin-born Baumann. "One important aspect is the absence of lyrics, which gives...
Calkins will be joined by Itzhak Perlman, an internationally acclaimed violinist; Paul H. Nitze '28, a chief U.S. arms negotiator; Lord Alexander Rupert Carrington, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and Benno C. Schmidt Jr., the next president of Yale University...
...Violinist Isaac Stern is giving his son David an early graduation present Saturday. The father and son will perform on stage together for the first time...