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Less than two weeks ago, a crowd of more than 300 students rallied at the University of California at Berkeley to protest the American military presence in the Middle East. One of the protestors, a 23-year-old Marine reserve corporal named Erik Larsen, told the crowd that he would refuse orders to be activated...
Less than two weeks ago, a crowd of more than 300 students rallied at the University of California at Berkeley to protest the American military presence in the Middle East. One of the protestors, a 23-year-old Marine reserve corporal named Erik Larsen, told the crowd that he would refuse orders to be activated...
Less than two weeks ago, a crowd of more than 300 students rallied at the University of California at Berkeley to protest the American military presence in the Middle East. One of the protestors, a 23-year-old Marine reserve corporal named Erik Larsen, told the crowd that he would refuse orders to be activated...
Fleck attended Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, where banjo was not considered a serious instrument. So he studied privately, first with Erik Darling, onetime member of the Weavers folk quartet, and eventually with Trischka, an urban bluegrass whiz. Even then, Fleck was an eclectic, trying to absorb everything from salsa to jazz. Especially jazz. "I bought a Charlie Parker record, and I thought, "Wow! This is incredible." I tried to learn Parker's licks on the banjo, but I couldn't find the notes." One day, in a high school jazz-appreciation class, the teacher played pianist...
...main foci of his energies in this audition are Paul (Erik Anderson), an emotionally troubled dancer, and Cassie (Jacqueline Sloan), a fallen star and Zach's former lover. But the other dancers, especially Sheila (Lyra O. Barrera) and Diana (Susan Levine) do not escape his scrutiny. Much of the text of the musical seems dated, especially some of the material on homosexuality; but the power of the script is a timeless power based in poignant statements about the nature of performance and, not coincidentally, pain...