Word: harpist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statues of the Madonna and an ebony St. Martin of Tours; inside, Holy Seven Spiritual Good Luck Bath Oil and the ever reliable Gamblers Drops are for sale. Next door is a nice place for early dinner: Copeland's, which speaks in tasteful tones (carnations on each table, a harpist on weekends) and cooks in Southern and Cajun accents. "Chitterlings and champagne, m'sieur...
...radio is spreading, with such stations as WBMW in Washington and KTWV-FM in Los Angeles offering dreamy light jazz that one listener described as "like I tapped into a radio station on Mars." The Grammys now include a special prize for New Age music (latest winner: Swiss Harpist Andreas Vollenweider). Fledgling magazines with names like New Age, Body Mind Spirit and Brain/Mind Bulletin are full of odd ads: "Healing yourself with crystals," "American Indian magic can work for you," "How to use a green candle to gain money," "The power of the pendulum can be in your hands...
Through aggressive recruiting of freshmen, graduate students, and disaffected musicians and singers from other Harvard ensembles, MMV recently expanded its core to 41 musicians--including the conventional orchestral brass, strings, flutes, reeds and percussion, as well as 14 singers, a lute/guitarist, a harpsichordist, an Irish harpist and recorders. "We're not exactly a modern orchestra," Tokuno says...
...lovely incongruity, weight lifters took over the symphony hall, and to a harpist's rendition of The Harmonious Blacksmith, Cuban-born Roberto ("Tony") Urrutia tried his hand as an American. The three-time world champion, who defected seven years ago on the end of a bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully...
...formula pop. As much of rock has degenerated into pallid imitations of Led Zeppelin, and the wallets and midsections of the baby boomers have fattened with age, new vistas in pop music have opened up. Major labels such as Warner Bros. and CBS, which releases the recordings of Harpist Andreas Vollenweider, are issuing New Age recordings, and Gramavision has signed up New Age Musicians Steve Halpern and Kitaro...