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...same wind-up Harlequin and Columbine—an almost eerily perfect Melissa Hough, whose triple pirouettes, wide unblinking eyes, and general look of tart, wooden sweetness was even more ideal than that of an actual porcelain doll. Rather than a toy soldier, though, Nissinen gives a virtuoso turn to a life-size bear danced brilliantly by Paul Craig in a costume that seemed impossibly restricting until he whipped out several 180-degree split saut de chats. Josephine Pra and especially Altankhuyag Dugaraa were an entertaining Grandmother and Grandfather, respectively, each pulling out the stops with regards to various pensioner...
...year marks Campbell’s emergence as a prominent Harvard jazz musician in his own right. He coordinates and plays his own shows about four times a month. His Facebook group, “Malcolm Campbell Performs,” currently boasts a membership of over 300. Saxophone virtuoso Marcus G. Miller ’08 once described Campbell as “the baddest man in America.” “He’s attentive, creative, eclectic, brilliant, and inventive—the list can go on and on,” says Miller...
...abandoning the language of acoustic guitar in favor of churning, feedback-heavy noise-passages. Fahey’s relentless creative antagonism made him a figure of inspiration for artists like Sun City Girls and Six Organs of Admittance.But these two seemingly divergent forces—Kottke the acoustic virtuoso, Fahey the ambient experimenter—came together with Peter Lang to record an eponymous 1974 LP. Because of Takoma’s relatively limited financial clout and semi-dormant status in the wake of Fahey’s death, this album remains nearly impossible to find, but what thin documentation...
This special election issue looks both forward and backward, from Nancy Gibbs' virtuoso cover story to Klein's take on the best-run campaign he's ever seen to Michael Grunwald's assessment of the tasks facing the new President to T.D. Jakes on what it means to have a black President to Richard Norton Smith's wise essay on the end of the Reagan era to our great photographer Callie Shell's signature pictures of Obama behind the scenes, where she has been positioned for more than two years...
...grew to love music very quickly and I couldn’t do without it. As soon as a child thinks that, he’s going to be a musician,” he said, adding that an individual does not need to be a virtuoso to be a musician.“One thing I know—that I am a musician,” he said. “I can’t think of anything else in the world I’d rather do. And you don’t have...