Sun casts deft portrait of inner-city students
Victoria Cheng
CAMBRIDGE — Every underdog can become a champion, every pauper a prince; this, we are told, is the American way. But for every story of success, there exists another tale, less well known and less often told, about individuals born beyond the margins of history who do not find their way in. Full story
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Berklee plays host to Canadian artists
Victoria Cheng
Rebecca Muir, a Canadian studying songwriting at Berklee College of Music, said she sometimes wonders whether Americans are even aware of her home country just across the northern border.
“Nobody really knows about us, and we might as well not even exist, because most people don’t really think about Canada,” she said.
Then she paused, and hedged toward diplomacy. Full story
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Songstress Ross among five to receive Kennedy Center honors
Natasha Metzler
WASHINGTON — From “Good Vibrations” to “Goodfellas,” Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. Steve Martin strutted as one of the “wild and crazy guys.” Diana Ross sang to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher surmounted a debilitating injury. Full story
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Jimi Hendrix memorabilia sells big at rock ‘n’ roll auction
PNEW YORK — An auction at Christie’s of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia from some of the hottest bands of the 1960s and ’70s hauled in big bucks Friday, including $20,000 for a Jimi Hendrix album and more than $4,000 for a Rolling Stones T-shirt.
A copy of Hendrix’s “Axis: Bold as Love” album from 1968 — inscribed “Thanks for everything” and accompanied by three color photos of the rock star — sold for double its pre-sale estimate of $10,000.
Three cardboard posters for Hendrix concerts in 1968 and 1969 fetched $10,625, $16,250 and $18,750.
The limited edition, long-sleeved sweater designed to promote the Stones’ 1973 “Goat’s Head Soup” album sold for $4,750. Only about a dozen of them were produced. Full story
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