> William Du Bois
>
> Duke Ellington.
>
> John Coltrane.
>
> Mark Twain.
and a few others.
I would add:
Aaron Copland Isaac Stern James Levine
and a few others -- I would, that is, if doing so did not brand me as a white, bourgeois, comfortable elitist.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet; Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I. -- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)