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...classical music, Gim says he likes it, but could perform his routines just as well without Bach in the background. Nonetheless, Gim often receives accolades from students for his musical selections. His repertoire includes such titles as "Puccini's Greatest Hits," Brahms Violin and Double Concerti, Tschaikovsky Piano and Violin Concerto and "Top Ten Sopranos...
...entirely give up entertaining when he joined the Nation of Islam. During his early years, he wrote and recorded A White Man's Heaven Is a Black Man's Hell, a favorite black Muslim anthem. And he still plays the violin between 1 and 3 o'clock most mornings. At his 60th birthday concert in Chicago last May, soon to be available on videotape, he played Mendelssohn...
...predominantly Jewish area to a black one. A choirboy at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, he ran relays in track and made his way to Winston-Salem Teachers College in North Carolina, which he attended for two years. But his real gift was for music. He played the violin obsessively, retreating to the bathroom with bow in hand for three to five hours at a stretch. He also sang and played guitar and, after leaving college, appeared on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and in nightclubs as Calypso Gene or the Charmer. He has said that after hearing Elijah...
...might not like that but we wouldn't stopyou," Green said. "If Harvard has to pay a certainshare of those violin lessons then they're goingto have a problem...
...scholarship from the ViolinSociety of America subject to the fact that youcontinue to take violin lessons and the violinsociety discriminated against certain kinds ofpeople," Green said, "we wouldn't have any problemwith that...