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...accompaniment,” says de Bakker. “You also get stylistic things like being polyphonic in texture. Each line is thought of as its own thing. If you’re just banging out chords on the piano it sounds sort of strange and you think, wow, this is kind of modern.” The program is tied together not only by the common time period of the pieces, but also by the theme of the works. “It’s all music that presents an emotion of sadness, but in very different...
...meet David Letterman? I was performing at the Comic Strip in 1979, I think, and I came off stage, and the manager at the club said, You know, this guy named David Letterman just saw you. I was like, Wow! I was excited because he didn't even have his morning show yet, but we knew he was a great comic. But I got a call the next day from the talent coordinator of the Tonight Show who said, David Letterman said he saw you and that you might be a good candidate for the Tonight Show. I didn...
...friends again instead of spending all their private time in public places [like restaurants]. Michelle Obama out there planting a garden on the White House lawn is a wonderful message. For someone like me who's spent my whole life trying to get people to go into the kitchen, wow...
...Ugly duckling stories really do not get any better than this. And Britain's Got Talent milked them for all they were worth, cutting away to eye rolls and snickering by the audience and judges before the two wow-inducing performances. (Eye rolls and snickering, of course, can be taped at any time and edited in later, but never mind.) But exactly how untutored and undiscovered were Potts, who went on to win 2007's competition and will release the CD Passione on May 5, and Boyle, who since her performance surfaced last week has become a household name...
...have to realize that when I was a kid, my father was unknown. It's only when I turned 18 that I really realized, "Wow, my dad's a big shot." My children grew up with a famous name, so it was tough for them. I never tried to push them in any direction other than what they wanted to do. So they both went their own merry way. My daughter has a Masters in psychology and my son went into environmental economics. After proving to themselves that they could do other things, they knocked on the door and said...