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[hauntedbystorytelling]

Billy Blei von Trude Fleischmann

Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) ~ Rollenbild der Schauspielerin Sibylla Blei (1897-1962), um 1925 | src Wien Museum View more on WordPress

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Diez de... septiembre de 2022 (II). Por Pachi Tapiz [Grabaciones de jazz]

Diez de… septiembre de 2022 (II). Por Pachi Tapiz [Grabaciones de jazz]

Segunda entrega de Diez de… variada como siempre. Entre otras grabaciones, incluye varios homenajes: Ethan Philion a MIngus, Lluís Vidal y David Xiru a Carla Bley, Ray Paz a Sean Levitt, Pat Thomas a Anthony Braxton. Dos directos de Eddie Harris y las bandas de los hermanos Brecker. Y también un bonito disco de Duke Ellington junto a Billy Strayhorn. Diez de… 1: Ethan Philion: Meditations on…

[projazznet]

Paul Bley Trio – The Nearness Of You

The Nearness of You is an album of jazz standards by pianist Paul Bley recorded in Denmark in 1988 and released on the SteepleChase label. Paul Bley – piano Ron McClure – bass Billy Hart – drums

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so i updated my haladriel textfic erase me today (part three is on twitter) and i’d love to talk about that.

This is the wikipedia page I made for Celeborn. I really wanted him to be a mashup of Jack Antonoff and FINNEAS, which is interesting bc I am a known Celeborn hater who likes both of these producers.

Some canon references are more obvious than others. His middle name comes from his canonical Quenya name. Galadhrim Music is a reference to the elves living in Lothlorien. I wanted to make this world bigger bc touring is a huge part of the story, so Beleriand still exists here. I decided to make the Doriath family a family of politicians and civil servants bc i wanted the sort of government/leadership/public service feel but without the ickiness of actually making him nobility (though I did decide that his ancestors should still be royal). His band, Hidden Kingdom, is of course a reference to Doriath itself, and their album, The Fall, is a reference to the sacking of Menegroth.

Almost everything about Hidden Kingdom was taken from Jack Antonoff. He had a punk rock band in high school that toured using a DIY booking guide and played in anarchist bookstores. The approach to writing is heavily influenced by FINNEAS’ comments about how he writes songs for his sister, Billie Eilish, and how his acting experience helps with that.

A little easter egg here that you might catch later on in this part of the fic is that Amroth Lorien is the frontman of the supergroup Tevildo that Halbrand and Galadriel are both members of. You can expect to see a lot more about Tevildo in Part Four, but if it isn’t obvious, they are essentially intended to be the Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene.

More easter eggs with Erase Me:

- Both Hal and Gal are openly bisexual characters here. They also are not strictly monogamous sexually, which is not a big deal here but referenced occasionally— particularly in the phone call in Part Three between H + G where it’s implied that they have history with the Loriens.

- The Soundtrack podcast was inspired by a podcast episode I heard that was a conversation between Stevie Nicks and Matty Healy. I also wanted the vibe to be very Actors on Actors. We’ll see if Galadriel makes an appearance on it in the future.

- Gal has ADHD, but I’ve never directly referenced this.

- Whispers From The Void = Crazy Days and Nights. The individual posting goes by K, any guesses as to who that is?

- Elrond is not just a music video director but a successful feature film director as well.

- Nothing is happening between Nori and Isildur, I just love fuckboy Isildur vibes.

- G’s solo music is a cross between Eloise’s album Drunk On A Flight (which is referenced frequently throughout the fic) and Phoebe Bridgers. I really imagine the stuff she’s working on now as very similar to the song Drunk On A Flight by Eloise and Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers.

- The Dagorath Tour is partially inspired by Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.

- The controversy re: G’s drumming is a reference to Meg White of The White Stripes.

- G does actually DJ as well, but more so just for fun. I imagine her as the sort of person who seems to be able to name any song three seconds into the intro.

- H is the more “serious” musician in terms of what he’ll listen to, but his formal education is lacking compared to G’s.

- “Light” is intended to be a sort of cross between Perth by Bon Iver, Something by The Beatles, and Guiding Light by Foy Vance, in terms of vibes, not necessarily sound.

- Lindalë’s sound is inspired by Silversun Pickups, Metric, The Strokes, Oh Wonder, Better Oblivion Community Center, and Arcade Fire, but with a lot of diverse influences (prog, punk, hip-hop, jazz, lounge) and they’re a little nerdy musically. They are getting into heated arguments over time signature shifts and they will defend their overuse of seventh chords to the death.

- I imagine a favorite album of G’s being Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley & The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, but she also would love Ctrl by SZA, Led Zeppelin IV, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West (though she wouldn’t listen to that anymore bc of him being awful).

- H’s music in my head I imagine as a cross between Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, Ray LaMontagne, Iron & Wine, and Conor Oberst, with a splash of Big Thief in there. His favorite album would probably be something like Grace by Jeff Buckley or Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey, but he also probably loves OK Computer and In Rainbows by Radiohead and Actor by St. Vincent.

- There’s a bit where they talk on Moria Music about playing with Tevildo and that is almost entirely inspired by a video of Broken Social Scene performing Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl where Emily Haines says “I missed my friends” at the end. I also reference that line in an instagram caption of Celeborn’s.

- They are big into psychedelics and also regularly take MDMA together.

- Galadriel has threatened divorce many times but this is the first time she’s ever actually gone ahead with it.

- Nori is constantly looking for a new job but never actually takes anything bc she feels very loyal to H + G, even though she’s overworked and underpaid lol. She is not their first assistant, but most quit pretty fast.

- Hal has a Google alert set up for G.

- The divorce announcement was inspired by a number of celebrity divorce announcements, but none quite so much as the infamous Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin conscious uncoupling. Others include Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner and David Arquette & Courteney Cox — I just swapped out the band for references to their kids lol.

- The song “Palantír” is somewhat inspired by Cannibal by Marcus Mumford

That was a lot but I hope it was somewhat enjoyable?

[theloniousbach]

SEARCHING FOR A NEW FAVORITE PIANIST AT MEZZROW’S

ANTONIO CIACCA with Paul Gill and Aaron Seeber, 21 MAY 2024, 7:30 pm set

YANIV TAUBENHOUSE with Rick Rosato and Jerad Lippi, 22 MAY 2024, 7:30 pm set

SAM YAHEL with Larry Grenadier and Kresten Osgood, 20 MAY 2024, 9 pm set

PETER ZAK with David Wong and Billy Drummond, 24 MAY 2024, 7:30 pm set

I didn’t find a new favorite pianist, though PETER ZAK deserves the weekend run and the elite rhythm section. But I did want to explore some new players using who was in the band with them as the criterion.

It started with SAM YAHEL snagging Larry Grenadier. The first set was wonderfully highjacked by Joe Lovano who played a set of standards in an adventurous way. The band stretched, but were diverted from taking on Yahel’s edgier compositions. Grenadier was right at home and Kresten Osgood in shorts and Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt was also well prepared as his website indicated he had avant-garde bona fides. Yahel wasn’t that spiky, but I thought I heard some Paul Bley and the most swinging tune, the finale, had some Jarrett vamping. A fine enough set, but I’m not haring off at once for more of Yahel’s music.

After the Lovano set, I planned to hear Yahel on his own terms and saw the other players (and their bands!) and thought it would make for an interesting exercise. Since it was a week culminating in seeing Christian McBride, it is appropriate that bass players would be key to my enjoyment of these sets. Indeed Rick Rosato provided the structure and drive to YANIV TAUBENHOUSE’s unassertive set. Again his tunes left impressions of moods but were quiet and unobtrusive. They closed with My Foolish Heart and so maybe Bill Evans is an influence, but he missed the fire that was always present in Evans. The tune before that was Bud Powell’s Oblivion which had a light swing which Rosato kindled as best he could. Jerad Lippi’s solo was interesting for how he found the melody on the kit.

ANTONIO CIACCA played lots of Bud Powell and quite well. He did took effective advantage of Paul Gill and Aaron Seeber who were their solid selves making for an appealing set. Besides Sylvia, John’s Abbey, and the rare Glass Enclosure, there was a brisk, Bud like version of Just One of Those Things. Gill played arco on a brooding Satin Doll. Ciacca had three originals and all the material swung nicely. I liked this set very much.

But PETER ZAK, whom I may have seen before during a previous iteration of this exploratory exercise, was the winner. He has a two night run and David Wong and Billy Drummond as collaborators which raised expectations that were justified. He opened with what turned out to be Ornette Coleman’s The Blessing. It had an easy groove and some intricacies, but I wouldn’t have guessed Coleman. But that merely speaks to the fact that he is an underrated composer, that the tunes are not simply reliant on their composer’s playing. Zak also found Ellington’s wonderful Warm Valley and Woody Shaw’s The Organ Grinder which had a Cedar Walton-ish bass figure in the left hand. The played a brisk bebop number too which featured a Billy Drummond solo that was arrestingly minimalist rather like Billy Mintz.

I don’t feel compelled to catch any of the other three sets this weekend, but I do have Zak and Ciacca too on my radar. They showed me something.

[bodidarma]

Trude Fleischmann.Sibylla (Billy) Blei , Vienna, ca. 1924.

[writingfanficsfan]

Tagged! Reading edition

Oh, this is nice! Thank you for tagging me @batik96

Current: Is a library book and the first in the series featuring character Robert Hunter, written by Chris Carter. I actually read another book first, I saw it in the library and the cover and then summary sounded really good. So now I'm working my way back and found book 1 The crucifix killer. I already started in it, while waiting at the car wash, and it's going to be brilliant, I can already tell.

Recent: I just finished my own copy of Billy Summers by Stephen King. It was still as good as I remembered reading it the first time. The character of Billy and his friendship with Alice is just so good to read. Stephen King is a master at what he does. It's just a fact.

Future: I have 3 other librarby books to read in these next few weeks.

1: DØDENS DRABANTER by Gunnar Staalesen

2: Systern by Mikaela Bley

3: Body language by A.K. Turner

And then one book I ordered from the library but needs to arrive still. A book about dementia.

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Birthdays 11.10

Beer Birthdays

Martin Luther; religious leader (1483)

William Hogarth; English artist (1647)

Jacob Betz (1843)

Edward Cecil Guinness (1847)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bill Bryson; writer (1946)

Neil Gaiman; English writer (1960)

Billy May; composer, bandleader (1916)

Roy Scheider; actor (1932)

Carl Stalling; composer (1891)

Famous Birthdays

Francis Maitland Balfour; British biologist (1851)

Paul Bley; Canadian-American pianist and composer (1932)

Richard Burton; Welsh actor (1925)

Jacob Cats; Dutch poet, jurist (1577)

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1433)

Winston Churchill; author and painter (1871)

Francois Couperin; French composer (1668)

Tommy Davidson; comedian (1963)

Zoey Deutch; actress (1994)

Taron Egerton; Welsh actor (1989)

Roland Emmerich; German film director (1955)

Robert F. Engle; economist, Nobel Prize laureate (1942)

Jacob Epstein; American-English sculptor (1880)

Ernst Fischer; German chemist (1918)

Oliver Goldsmith; Irish writer (1728)

W.E.B. Griffin; writer (1929)

Hachikō; Japanese dog (1923)

William Hogarth; English painter, illustrator (1697)

Russell Johnson; actor (1924)

Mikhail Kalashnikov; Russian general, designed AK-47 (1919)

Jared P. Kirtland; naturalist (1793)

Greg Lake; rock guitarist, singer (1947)

Louis le Brocquy; Irish painter and illustrator (1916)

Vachel Lindsay; poet (1879)

Dave Loggins; singer, songwriter (1947)

J.P. Marquand; writer (1893)

Johnny Marks; composer and songwriter (1909)

Mike McCarthy; Green Bay Packers coach (1963)

Tracy Morgan; comedian, actor (1968)

Ennio Morricone; Italian composer (1928)

Brittany Murphy; actor (1977)

Zofia Nałkowska; Polish author and playwright (1884)

Tom Papa; comedian, actor, tv host (1968)

Mackenzie Phillips; actor (1959)

Ellen Pompeo; actress (1969)

Henri Rabaud; French composer (1873)

Claude Rains; actor (1889)

Ann Reinking; dancer, actor (1949)

Tim Rice; lyricist (1944)

Friedrich Schiller; German poet and playwright (1759)

Sinbad; comedian (1956)

David "Screaming Lord" Sutch; English entertainer (1940)

Bram Tchaikovsky; English singer-songwriter (1950)

Steven Utley; author and poet (1948)

Friedrich von Schiller; German writer (1759)

Brooks Williams; singer, songwriter (1958)

Arnold Zweig; German author (1887)

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Wes Buckley

Wes Buckley is a cosmic folk songwriter from Western Massachusetts, whose homespun, all-natural music spins off into unexpected revelations, epiphanies and absurdities. He recorded a split with Michael Hurley in 2014 and has released some home-made CDs, but The Towering Ground on Belltower Records is his first official full-length. Jennifer Kelly reviewed it for Dusted last month, observing that “The mystic and the mundane jostle elbows, line to line, verse to verse.” Here he lists some of his favorite drumless music.

If they ever outlaw drums — revolt! But while you’re getting organized you could still listen to most of these…

Mike Cooper — “Knew Strings”

This tune and record continue my endless quest to hear something I can’t quite put my finger on. It started I think with this deliberate exploration of drumless jazz trios while I was painting an entire inn. Led me to ’80s Chet Baker with Phillip Catherine and Jean-Louise Rassinfosse. This sorta led to drumless duos which I will get into more of, both drumless duos, trios, and then solo artists. I like drums but I was questing.

Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow — “Sensing”

I don’t think I should go much further into the drumless schtick without mentioning Jimmy Giuffre. His Saturday and Sunday records with Steve Swallow and Paul Bley are magical. Yes, I love Free Fall. But another endless quest is the music of older people. Not necessarily ones that came back and reformed the band but ones that have been polishing the glass for many decades without a care in the world as to who is paying attention. Single minded types. There’s real magic in those records. This is some late era JG. So, Jimmy was part of the Music Inn lore here in the Berkshires in the ’60s. All the legends came up from New York and played but Jimmy went a step further and moved here. Passed away right here in Pittsfield and that’s why I have it mind to bring more light to his work locally. We need a Jimmy Giuffre Day and music festival at least. Disgraceful it doesn’t yet exist if you ask me.

Cecil Taylor — “Indent: First Layer”

Indent by Cecil Taylor. I keep returning to this record with big headphones lying in bed going places. It feels so important to me but I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it to anyone before.

Bill Orcutt — “Odds Against Tomorrow”

Someone else who I would imagine feels the same… Bill’s latest is gorgeous. Bought it in LP form at my local shop so it’s a part of my LP listening which is sort of a different station in the house. Right in the dining/living room zone which usually means being aware of other people when I put on music and I’ve noticed this is a Sunday record. This falls under the list of drumless solo recordings.

Anthony Braxton and Eugene Chadbourne — Duo (Improv) 2017

Duo (Improv) 2017 by Anthony Braxton Eugene Chadbourne

I must say the pinnacle of the drumless duos so far on my path is the 8 hour box from 2017 by Anthony Braxton and Eugene Chadbourne. In the booklet there is an hourglass between them in the studio. Consequently, I noticed that each piece (8 of ’em) are an hour long. I don’t know. Something about that seems so intense to me. We’re going to improvise together for eight hours using an hourglass to guide the pieces and when the last grain falls…

Okkyung Lee — “The Crow Flew After Yi Sang”

I make some of my own instruments with piezo pickups I’ve soldered and they are, barring the cigar box guitars, basically electric percussion sculptures. The series started with circular wooden platters and the first one was called The Pizza. The second one was all painted red and called The Borscht. I use lots of pedals and compose with them via cut up. I could imagine a Okkyung Lee collab with that stuff going pretty well. This cello sounds like someone sawing their own throat with a piano string, it’s truly gorgeous.

Doc and Merle Watson — “Summertime”

Yeah, I listen to music with vocals too. Here’s one of my old fav’s. I recall learning all of the songs on Elementary (poorly) through the years and am still looking for my partner in crime to start a duo that does this kind of stuff at apple picking days at the orchard and such.

Mississippi Fred McDowell — “Jesus Is On The Mainline”

This is a whole live record of Fred on electric guitar with bass and it’s a source of great power in my opinion. It journeys without fear, is fully aware of itself, and as a recording captures the exacting and indivisible nature of earth and wind. And technically speaking, if you're like me and need a slide guru look no further.

Jonathan Richman — “Wait! Wait!”

I wouldn’t want to finish the list without breaking the rule a couple times! One of my favorite duos — Tommy and Jonathan! Ishkode Ishkode and Jonathan’s other latest records on Blue Arrow is a joyful place that I return to without fail. His new one, SA, we have at the vinyl station too though it’s more a making dinner and singing along record. Two things I must do daily.

Billie Holiday — “The Same Old Story (Take 1)”

You might have heard of Billie Holiday. She shouldn’t be left out of any list. This is the one for me. The band, the intro, the piano solo, the swing, the session, the lyric, the delivery. I listen to this over and over and over. When the horns come back in on story and the whole groove locks in I’m in ecstasy, but it’s new to me.

[saidthewizard]

Unmitigated Magic ...

... from one of the greatest jazz pianists. This is the title track from Canadian Paul Bley's album The Nearness of You, one of eight standards recorded in 1988 (SteepleChase SCS 1246). 

Switch off your mobile phone, shut out the world’s noises, and for 12 minutes drift off into another world. This is playing of phenomenal quality!

The trio playing this piece are:

Paul Bley, piano Ron McClure, bass Billy Hart, drums

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Sibylla Bley by Trude Fleischmann, ca. 19 Trude Fleischmann :: Sibylla Bley , ca. 1920-1925 | src Theatermuseum

[trevorbarre]

Don Cherry: Down to The Wire

There is an excellent essay, in this month’s Wire magazine, on Don Cherry’s time in Watts, the mainly black area in Los Angeles (a racial ‘hot spot’, before Compton took over that particular City of Angels trope by the 1990s), that exploded into riots in 1965 (as ‘celebrated’ in the Mothers of Inventions’ ‘Trouble Every Day’ on Freak Out!) and 1992, the year of the Rodney King scandal, a precursor to our current day Black Lives Matter unrest(s). The article is by a Gabriel Bristow, who I assume is an American correspondent, and it informed me of several facts about Cherry’s early life and time that I was hitherto unaware of.

For example, Bristow mentions the historically opaque alto saxophonist George Newman, who was praised to the skies by such contemporary luminaries as Bobby Bradford and Horace Tapscott, but who seems to have suffered the same fate as Buddy Bolden, his career terminated by long term incarceration in a mental asylum. So many lives in jazz were ruined by either drugs or mental illness. (Even those who eventually pulled through, such as Miles, Bud Powell and Coltrane, bore the scars for the rest of their lives.) I’m a big fan of Cherry’s 1976 work Brown Rice, sections of which wouldn’t be entirely out of place on Carla Bley’s Escalator Over the Hill (EOTH). The 14-minute ’Malkauns’ and 13-minute ‘Chenrezig’, for example, features his old muckers from the Ornette Quartet, Charlie Haden (unmistakable on double bass) and Billy Higgins (on a tamboura, rather than drums, on the former track). These always make me think of EOTH’s ‘Jack’s Travelling Band’ and their sensational  ‘Rawalpindi Blues’ and ‘A.I.R.’, the latter covered at around the same time by Jan Garbarek on his classic Witchi-Tai-To recording. ’Chenrezig features some wonderful ‘floating’ trumpet and ‘Degi-Degi’ motors on very satisfactorily for a considerable period.

One very interesting factoid in the article is reference to the appearance, on the original Brown Rice cover, of the ‘Watts Tower’ (read the article!) behind the be-robed trumpeter. This image appears on page 31 of Wire, and caused me to make a metaphorical double-take. Referring to my CD edition of the record (the 1989 reissue, on A & M’s ‘Jazz Heritage’ series, of the original vinyl release), it seems that the aforementioned Tower has been excised, leaving an obviously photoshopped Cherry with only an empty deep blue ‘sky’ in back! Very odd. So I dug out my copy of that great 1990 history of Los Angeles, ‘City of Quartz’, by Mike Davis, to look up any references to this particular architectural curiosity. (There was only one very short entry, however).

The discography of Don Cherry (1936-1995) is one of jazz’s most varied and multi-stylistic. ‘Once Upon a Time in Watts’ has reignited my interest in this most puckish and likeable of the music’s somewhat less celebrated masters, and I’d recommend Brown Rice as being as approachable a starting point as any for the beginner. 1968′s Eternal Rhythms, with a mostly Scandi-German 8-piece band, is another little known early example of what could be called ‘world music’. Remember his imprint on such rock bands as Rip, Rig and Panic (1981′s God in particular), at the very start of what became 80s so-called ‘punk jazz’, and even onto the decade’s curate’s egg of a ‘jazz revival’, which I’m tempted to discuss next.

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[theloniousbach]

A NIGHT—24 SEPTEMBER 2022–AT SMALL’S AND MEZZROW’S LAST WEEK

BILLY DRUMMOND’S FREEDOM OF IDEAS with Dayna Stephens, Micah Thomas, and Joe Martin, SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 7:30 set

ADAM BIRNBAUM with Doug Weiss and Al Foster, MEZZROW’S, 9:00 set

ALAN BROADBENT with Harvie S and Billy Mintz, MEZZROW’S, 10:30 set

The conceit here is that I would pretend that I celebrate my birthday going to a congenial series of sets at the clubs I get to stream from. It was a birthday late in my seventh decade, so spreading it out suits and makes possible the later sets that would be a challenge in real time. But after a good start on the 4th and 5th of October, it is only tonight—the 10th—to get in the last set. So this night of listening took a week.

Lots of ways to slice it as there were some important drummers here as BILLY DRUMMOND had a leader’s swagger and Al Foster is a master of touch and taste while Billy Mintz is so subtle I couldn’t tell if his brushes actually touched the cymbals during a Harvie S solo. But he also got a real showcase on Little Suede Shoes’ Latin feel.

Our there were the celebrations of bebop masters with ALAN BROADBENT playing a second Charlie Parker tune, a blues, while Drummond had Monk’s Think of One and ADAM BIRNBAUM took on We See. But there were also compositions, particularly from Drummond who offered Frank Kimbrough’s Clara’s Room, Grachan Moncur’s The Coaster, and Carla Bley’s Valse Sinistre. But, though I couldn’t place it, a Shorter from Birnbaum as well as Kenny Barron’s (“my mentor”) Twilight Song.

And, yes, Birnbaum, I need to remind myself, is an appealing player and his set was compelling. Broadbent was clearly trying something out as he did some two handed arpeggio flourishes on three tunes. He was distinguished and refined as always with unassuming tempos, but he was trying something interesting. Micah Thomas can be abstracted as he was on the Monk, but he found some swing, though having Billy Drummond behind you makes it hard not to, and Dayna Stephens unrushed melodic midrange tenor but sometimes soprano work gave him some melodic connection and they did sync up.

Harvie S and Billy Mintz are a matched set, though Harvie S is the mischief in that trio. Doug Weiss with Birnbaum and Foster probably had more space than Joe Martin who was just in a bigger band whereas Weiss had the right mix of harmonic ideas from his pianist and space and time to explore with Foster.

But no complaints all around. It happened to be my birthday but all three sets were ones I wanted to see and thanks to the archived stream I could get around to all of them. Even if it took a week.

[dannyreviews]

Entertainment Legends Who Should Receive The Kennedy Center Honors (2020 Edition)

Another update on potential future honorees.

Actors:

Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Michael Caine, Leslie Caron, Glenn Close, Billy Crystal, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, Boyd Gaines, Joel Grey, Gene Hackman, Rosemary Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Glenda Jackson, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Nathan Lane, Jessica Lange, Elaine May, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Bob Newhart, Christopher Plummer,  Maggie Smith, Dean Stockwell, Dick Van Dyke, Denzel Washington, Betty White

Composers/Conductors:

John Adams, Daniel Barenboim, George Crumb, Carlisle Floyd, Valery Gergiev, Phillip Glass, John Corigliano, Dave Grusin, Mike Post, Simon Rattle, Steve Reich, Ned Rorem, Lalo Schifrin, Leonard Slatkin, La Monte Young, Hans Zimmer

Dancers/Choreographers:

Toni Basil, Savion Glover, Cynthia Gregory, Kenny Ortega, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune

Directors:

Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, James Ivory, Norman Jewison

Musicians:

Herb Alpert, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emanuel Ax, Burt Bacharach, Carla Bley, Yefim Bronfman, Larry Carlton, Ron Carter, Ry Cooder, Chick Correa, Stanley Drucker, Bela Fleck, James Galway, Evelyn Glennie, Keith Jarrett, Kim Kashkashian, Doug Kershaw, Ramsey Lewis, Wynton Marsalis, Jean-Luc Ponty, Arturo Sandoval, Peter Schickele, Pinchas Zukerman

Singers:

ABBA, Paul Anka, Janet Baker, Cecilia Bartoli, Kathleen Battle, Betty Buckley, Shirley Caesar, José Carreras, Eric Clapton, Judy Collins, Phil Collins, Renee Fleming, Barry Gibb, Kiri Te Kanawa, Allison Krauss, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gladys Knight, Patti Lupone, Audra McDonald, Bette Midler, Sherrill Milnes, Liza Minnelli, Van Morrison, Bernadette Peters, Samuel Ramey, The Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Renata Scotto, Ringo Starr, Bryn Terfel, Frankie Valli, Frederica von Stade, Willard White

Theatrical People:

Emanuel Azenberg, Alain Boubil/Claude-Michel Schonberg, Peter Brook, Michael Frayn, Athol Fugard, David Hare, Sheldon Harnick, Bill Irwin, James Lapine, David Mamet, Terrence McNally, Alan Menken, Trevor Nunn, Tim Rice, Stephen Schwartz, Peter Sellars, Richard M. Sherman, Tom Stoppard, Charles Strouse, Jonathan Tunick, Jerry Zaks