Word: yo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the past few years major record companies like Columbia and RCA have < scrambled to hook up with rap labels. MTV, once criticized for ostracizing hip-hop videos, gives Yo! MTV Raps 30 minutes on its daily schedule. Master rappers D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince have appeared on the David Letterman show. The Grammy Awards got into the act last year when it created its first rap-music category. Meanwhile, mainstream musicians like pop producer and jazz trumpeter Quincy Jones are including rap tracks on their new albums...
Bolcom cheerfully quotes a colleague as saying that he is the only serious composer who drives a Cadillac. But he has worked hard for his popularity, and he still does. His tenth string quartet premiered last year, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne...