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Died. Billie Goodson Pierce, 67, percussive, nimble-fingered jazz pianist and blues singer who once served briefly as Bessie Smith's accompanist and blossomed in the 1960s as co-leader, with her blind, horn-playing husband DeDe Pierce, of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, elderly but exuberant purveyors of classic New Orleans sound; of kidney and liver disease; in New Orleans...
...absorbed some of the innovations of Beethoven and Weber and gone on to anticipate some of the expressive, warm-blooded styles that would be heard later from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly) and the clarinet takes a solo: pure Schumann. The piano's entry in the second movement has a stride and harmonic ingenuity prophetic of Chopin...
Singer Pearl Bailey was displeased with her accompanist. When he tried to resign, saying "I probably don't know any songs you know," she shrugged, "Mr. President, anything you play, I know-however old." But when he broke into a stilted Home on the Range, she withered him with "I came here to sing a song, not to ride a horse." Finally, Pearlie Mae and President Richard Nixon harmonized. With 41 Governors and guests at the White House dinner last week, they chorused My Wild Irish Rose and God Bless America...
...second girl is Bobbi Michele, a paranoid pothead whom Barney picks up while munching peanuts on a bench in Central Park. He lends her the cash to hire an accompanist for an audition on Broadway. When she shows up at Mom's apartment the next day to repay the money, all of Barney's fantasies of extramarital fulfillment vanish in a haze of marijuana smoke...
...which the violin is replaced by a clarinet. The performances of the former works was atypical in one respect: violinist Roman Totenberg was the most prominent of the soloists. Cellist George Neikrug was, predictably, overpowered more often than not, while Leonard Shure unhappily assumed the role of piano accompanist, doing his best to stay out of the way through most of the evening...