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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.21.2008 The impromptu choir of 2,700 boomed out the chorus. "If it makes you happy / Then why the hell are you so sad," they fairly shouted, following Sheryl Crow's lead with abandon. It had been...
Richard "Richie" Beirach's career as a jazz pianist began at the Berklee College of Music, after having studied both classical and jazz piano. In 1972 he began working with Stan Getz, and went on to collaborate with other great...
Have you ever looked at an infestation of ants marching up and down a tree in your garden and think: Maybe if I nailed rubber soles from shoes in a pattern up the trunk of my tree, I could kill those ants, recycle the soles of...
NEW YORK Nico Muhly is hot. Physically, he is good-looking enough, with the wide eyes and toothy smile and frenetic energy of a mischievous, post-pubescent choirboy. But his real heat is as a composer. He is the flavor of the...