Word: maestro
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...rotation on his iPod, ED HARRIS is diligently transforming himself into yet another artistic savant. "He's the greatest musician that ever walked the planet," says Harris, who starred in and directed a 2000 biopic of painter Jackson Pollock. "I'm an actor from New Jersey." To master the maestro for Copying Beethoven, currently filming in Budapest, Harris, who has been in about a gazillion movies but may be best known for The Right Stuff or Apollo 13, has picked up piano, a pastime he abandoned in fourth grade. He's also learning to conduct. "I'm trying to figure...
Music, they say, hath charms. Larry Adler, 71, is a maestro of the harmonica whose U.S. concert career foundered in the 1950s when he was blacklisted for declining to identify friends as Communists. Edward L. Rowny, 68, is President Reagan's adviser on arms control and a man who lists to the right politically. But Rowny is also an avid harmonica player who used to deflate after-hours tensions at the 1982 Geneva arms talks by performing a Russian folk song or two. As teenagers, both men played together in a Baltimore harmonica band, and after one of Adler...
...Sierra Vista, Ariz., looks like a trash dump. Between the chaparral and scrub oaks are backpacks, sweatshirts, jeans, sneakers, used toilet paper and water bottles filled with urine. Chris Simcox, a small-town newspaper owner, flips through a book he picked out of the refuse titled Aprenda Ingles sin Maestro (Learn English Without a Teacher), shakes his head and says, "Welcome to the invasion...
...enjoys social outings, and also works for a good cause, working with youth musicians and donating CD and concert proceeds to charity. Throughout the school year, the Society brings famed pianists to Harvard to critique the performances being polished for concert, and this year’s visits included Maestro Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Maestro Robert Spano from the Atlanta Symphony...
...writer and seventh rewrite. Perhaps more significantly, after the grandeur of Elizabeth and the scale of The Four Feathers, Water is budgeted at a slim $20 million-despite an all-star team that includes writer Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show), designer John Myhre (Chicago) and, for the score, Bollywood maestro A.R. Rahman and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. "The same film in Hollywood would cost $100 million," says Kapur. "But here it isn't corporate. Here I can keep control...