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...DONALDSON: MR. SHING-A-LING (Blue Note). Following the success of his Alligator Bogaloo, Donaldson now applies his jazz alto, accompanied by trumpet, organ, guitar and drums, to such recent familiars as The Shadow of Your Smile and Ode to Billie Joe. Since he never wanders far from the melody on these tunes, those who get lost easily in jazz improvisation need not fear for their direction. More venturesome listeners may feel that Donaldson has settled for a too-safe format...
...movement progressed she became increasingly dependent on the score in her hand, and while her opening phrases had been nicely shaped the rest was little more than competent reading. Still, she obviously had a good ear, enviable accuracy of pitch and a fair amount of vocal agility. Alto Eunice Alberts sang with the inertia typical of her voice range. Her aria in BWV 34 was a minor battle for tempo, she pulling back, Kirchner trying to move things forward...
...Lincoln High School, now finds that she actually works harder and enjoys it more. Tom Pillsbury, 16, who was twice suspended from Ignacio Valley High for long hair, is now absorbed in Pacific's touring drama group, which has had its share of troubles. At one Palo Alto performance, a high school principal rushed onstage to object when an actress shed her dress, as required in Edward Albee's The American Dream...
Parents of Pacific students-most of them affluent Palo Alto professionals-are generally enthusiastic about the school. Educators acquainted with its program are cautiously willing to concede that in some ways it represents a healthy experiment. Berkeley Psychologist Norma Haan thinks Pacific is "realistic about the problems that today's teen-agers and their parents face." Children who merge from such a free school tend to be behind in factual knowledge, she notes, but they catch up quickly because "they are better able to interpret what they read." They also get a lot of adolescent rebelliousness out of their...
Died. Yvor Winters, 67, poet, critic and longtime (1937-66) Stanford literature professor; of cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. As a critic, he was formidable, engaging his peers in bitter polemics. He preferred Robert Bridges to T. S. Eliot, once called Ezra Pound "a barbarian loose in a museum." His own poetry, for which he won Yale's 1960 Bollingen Prize, was a mirror of the man, cool, sharp, diamond-hard, as in his definition of his work...