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...find it challenging to compose for an orchestra instead of a jazz band? Yes. The most difficult thing is that we play two different languages. It's really difficult to orchestrate and to know what will get what effect out of the orchestra. I'm continuing to work on it because I'm a great fan of classical music. I've played a lot of it. I grew up listening to it. But that's very different from writing it. (Read "Wynton Marsalis: Horns of Plenty...
...fair. But being Afro-American doesn't mean the blues isn't Anglo-American, too. People become confused and think being Afro-American means you exclude Anglo-Americans. Afro-American is a culture that includes people of all kinds of skin colors. It is a cultural disposition. So, yes, the blues is Afro-American music. But all races play...
...lives we will not concern ourselves with counting money or toys accumulated...we will ask ourselves: did I make a difference?” He added, “I hope for all of you, the answer is ‘Yes...
...didn't much matter what Bill Clinton had to say to Senate Democrats when he made his unusual appearance at their weekly caucus lunch Nov. 10 on Capitol Hill. Yes, he talked policy and economic imperatives and all that. But the former President was really there, at Senate majority leader Harry Reid's invitation, as the ghost of 1994 - a reminder of what happened the last time lawmakers took up the cause of health care reform and didn't finish the job. That failure not only dealt a near crippling blow to a young Democratic presidency but also cost...
...Yes, big corporate employers in China will tell you the best students coming out of U.S. universities are just as bright as and, generally speaking, far more creative than their counterparts from China's élite universities. But the big hump in the bell curve - the majority of the school-age population - matters a lot for the economic health of countries. Simply put, the more smart, well-educated people there are - of the sort that hard work creates - the more economies (and companies) benefit. Remember what venture capitalist Tam said about China and the electric-vehicle industry. A single, relatively...