Two giants, in their own words. (ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: January 18, 1993 | Copyright information

Nureyev and Gillespie both contributed greatly to the world's culture, and both died in Jan 1993. Quotations from each artist about his life and work are included.

The domains over which they reigned were as different as heaven and Earth. Rudolf Nureyev had the noble bearing of a prince, a temperamental loner in ballet's ethereal realms. Dizzy Gillespie was known as the "clown prince" of jazz, a warm, antic denizen of earthier realms, of belly laughs and the wail of the blues. Y...

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