Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jazz bassist who died in 1979. Shifting from blues to Ellington-like mood pieces to cacophonous yawps, the work is scored for a 30- piece band. It was performed once in Mingus' lifetime, haphazardly. This live recording comes from Epitaph's real world premiere, at New York City's Lincoln Center last June. Composer and jazz historian Gunther Schuller led an all-star cast that included six musicians Mingus originally chose to play the work. The vivid result resembles its creator: difficult but dazzling...
...country of Jefferson, Washington and Lincoln and W.E. B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass and Marcus Garvey. It was the land of freedom and slavery, achievement and misery. It was a nation that revealed itself, in its history and philosophy, as an enigma; a confrontation of race and ideals. Afro-Am offered an opportunity to understand the United States...
...toast of political pundits and television interviewers. They dwell less on his vague achievements in government than on his travels, his Medal of Honor from Vietnam, his mastery of a restaurant business and the fact that he lured Hollywood's sexy superstar Debra Winger to his bachelor quarters in Lincoln. Those credentials play well in a party that has had trouble defining its patriotism and gender...
Clear-water relay. To raise consciousness about contamination in rivers and streams, activists will collect a bottle of springwater in Lincoln County, Ky., and relay it by canoe down the Green River's 616-km (382-mile) length to Evansville...
...very unscientific poll of pre-frosh this week, even those prospective members of the Class of 1994 who are not completely certain about their college choice know better than to head south. "I didn't see a lot of trees when I was at Yale," lamented Molly Confer of Lincoln, Neb. "Why would anyone like Yale?" asked Rachel J. Storch, who hails from St. Louis...