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These steroided, polyurethaned cheating men should be our heroes. For while we trumpet achievement through discipline, Americans are a performance-enhanced people - a Botoxed, Prozacked, Viagraed, LASIKed, Propeciaed, liposuctioned, tooth-whitened, spell-checked, serotonin-inhibited superrace. When Ortiz pushes a baseball over the fence with his balloon-animal arms, when Nancy Pelosi delivers one of her smooth-browed lectures, when Joe Biden smiles so photographers don't have to bother lighting a beer summit, they are celebrating the fact that we are no longer prisoners of our genetics. Having to accept the station you were born into is exactly...
Earlier this week, someone blew a trumpet from the second floor of the newsroom...
...Beyond Here Lies Nothing,” the first song on Bob Dylan’s 33rd studio album, “Together Through Life,” opens with a cool exchange of trumpet and electric guitar, over a brilliant circular drumline. Dylan’s voice emerges with style and authority. He sings about love. He sings about desolation. He sings about life. Somehow, even after a trilogy of masterpieces—1997’s “Time Out of Mind,” 2001’s “Love and Theft...
...succinctly replies “I don’t think so,” an answer unsurprising to anyone familiar with his musical endeavors. During his time at the College, Kapusta has been integral to many musical organizations; his activities have ranged from playing the trumpet in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra to sitting on the board of the Dunster House Opera. A joint Music and Literature concentrator, Kapusta is also one of the few Harvard students participating in Harvard’s joint degree program with the New England Conservatory, which involves a full course of study at Harvard...
...other jazz greats, Haynes came to realize his place in the genre: “The drummer is the heartbeat. If the heart stops beating, you’re dead.”To enhance the festivities honoring Haynes, the OFA invited special guest and Grammy-winning trumpet virtuoso Roy Hargrove. Hargrove, who recorded with Haynes on the 2001 Charlie Parker tribute “Birds of a Feather,” views Haynes as a key influence on modern jazz. In a presentation sponsored by The Harvard College American Music Association and the Harvard Jazz Bands, Hargrove said that...