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...years ago, I was running out of material to play for my Jazz and Poetry Orgy on WHRB. Orgies are six-plus hour blocks of programming devoted to an artist or a theme, for those of you who don’t know. Frantically combing through the piles of CDs and LPs strewn across the floor, I hit gold: a CD of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and other Beat poets with the Cellar Jazz Quintet. I put on the CD and Kenneth Rexroth came on, angrily spitting out the words to “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Rexroth...
Full disclosure: I spent the better part of my summer listening to the indie rock CDs that flooded the mailboxes I was forced to sort while I worked at a radio station. While I’m not one to complain about free stuff, the forced listening may be directly responsible for my annoyance with the Fiery Furnaces. There was a time when I didn’t mind listening to seven-minute songs with two tempo changes in the first sixty seconds. When the Furnaces sang lyrics demanding that they notarize my will, I thought they were actually kind...
...Cash, the Arctic Monkeys, Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood lining up to be his subjects. His portraits have been exhibited in art galleries around the world and in 14 sturdy books. But in fact most of us own a Corbijn: his artwork covers more than 100 records or CDs, and anyone who has watched MTV or VH1 will have seen one of the 80 or so music videos Corbijn has directed for acts such as Depeche Mode, Nirvana and Coldplay...
...upper echelons of science and engineering fields. They also cited Summers’ dispute with former African American studies professor Cornel R. West ’74. West, who is black, left for Princeton after Summers reportedly asked him to focus more on traditional scholarship rather than producing rap CDs. Richard C. Blum, chairman of the University of California board of regents, spoke with Summers, now the Eliot University professor, last Thursday and rescinded the invitation, according to University of California spokesman Trey Davis. Susan Kennedy, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff, will replace Summers...
...pair’s departure was a serious blow to a department that lost several scholars during Summers’ tenure, including star professor Cornel West, who left for Princeton after Summers suggested in a much-publicized confrontation that he should spend less time developing rap CDs and more time on traditional scholarship...