Word: alvino
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...WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, ALVINO, you ask? Well, it's about a sound that can by turns be as lush and languid as a full string section or as bright and bouncy as a banjo, that can be applied to the most complex jazz progressions as well as the rawest foot-stomping moonshine music. It's deeply sophisticated and wholly honky-tonk at the same time, and it's the ultimate American instrument...
...pedal steel guitar is the descendant of the lap steel, which came into vogue around 1915 with the Hawaiian music craze and gradually worked its way into the American mainstream via the music of Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Alvino Rey and Santo & Johnny ("Sleepwalk"). American manufacturers like Rickenbacker and Gibson began making instruments to suit this new style of music, essentially flat slabs of wood, metal or Bakelite outfitted with a pickup and six or eight strings set about an inch above a painted-on fretboard. A guitar in name only, the steel guitar is played seated...
...James Alvino, the decathlon association's executive director, insists the group markets study materials "to level the playing field" after wealthy schools demonstrated a competitive edge. "Under the old system," agrees Nathan Schauer, a coach at Los Angeles' Lincoln High, "a few schools were always wiping the floor with the rest of us." Alvino adds that the $1.3 million proceeds from sales of study guides last year are needed to help support the nonprofit program's $1.75 million operating budget. In response to its critics, the decathlon association promises to cut prices for study guides and eliminate them for three...
...KING FAMILY (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The six King sisters, members of Alvino Rey's Orchestra in the '40s, appear with 33 of their musically gifted children, cousins and nephews in an hour of music spanning two generations...
...during Cesti's lifetime, and last week's La Piccola Scala performance suggested why. From start to finish, it was a singer's opera. The orchestration for the most part was slender, graceful, beautifully designed to give space to the principals (Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza, Tenor Alvino Misciano), who sang aria after aria in serene, long-breathing lines. Bright with sentimentally colored melodies, Orontea scored a hit even with the critic of the Communist L'Unita, who conceded that "it really is beautiful music." The audience did not quite hail the composer as a "miracolo della...