Word: accompanimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy Giuffre first played the clarinet in a Y.M.C.A. band, developed his style out of a distaste for the trancelike monotony of the big jazz rhythm section. In his 36 years he has played with a lot of big outfits-Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Garwood Van...
First to protest were 25 South African Roman Catholic bishops, who issued an urgent appeal to all white South Africans to consider "the evils" of apartheid: "One trembles at the blasphemy of attributing to God the offense against charity and justice that are apartheid's necessary accompaniment."
Bone-Deep Showmanship. Sometimes reaching for a phrase with his hands, sometimes swaying or relaxed or snapping rigid, Belafonte husked his way through the folk songs of half a dozen countries, e.g., work songs from the U.S. and Caribbean, an old English love song, an Israeli march, a partisan song...
Killmayer: Missa Brevis and Harrison: Mass (Margaret Hillis conducting the New York Concert Choir and Orchestra; Epic). The Fromm Music Foundation, joint sponsor with Epic records of the excellent Twentieth Century Composers Series, takes a look at current choral writing. Young (29) Munich-born Composer Wilhelm Killmayer's Missa...
Some of Diamond's colleagues also heard from last week: ¶J Alan Hovhaness' Easter Cantata got its first New York concert performance by the National Orchestral Association under Guest Conductor Newell Jenkins. Mystically described by Armenian-descended Composer Hovhaness ("The vocal element ... is the sun; the other...