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Walsh, 32, came to TIME from the San Francisco Examiner, where he was music critic for 3½ years and won a 1980 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism. A 1971 graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he studied composition and musicology, Walsh has written a piano sonata and a string quartet. Says he: "Only someone who has gone through the agony of putting notes on paper to form a coherent musical structure can know what a tremendous achievement a good piece of music is." He is also an accomplished pianist...
...Rice-Lloyd Webber score is inferior to their work in Jesus Christ Super star. While ingratiatingly melodic for the most part, Lloyd Webber's tunes seem to have been composed by the British equivalent of ASCAP anonymous. Rice's lyrics too often rely on straw-clutching rhymes. The dying Eva plaintively asks, "What is the good of the strongest heart/ In a body that's falling apart...
...action on resale of their works [March 11]. While enforcement of royalties for artists may be feasible on resale by galleries and auction houses, it would be extremely difficult on private resale. Perhaps what artists need is a Victor Herbert (or a Rauschenberg) to lead them into an ASCAP-type organization that may have some clout and a capability to police all resales...
...Unlike the two vocal groups, however, they are not played out by the 3:30 p.m. quitting time, and can moonlight for another $10,000 annually. Though they all probably get more air play than Streisand, Jagger or Bacharach put together, P. & T. staffers are paid no residuals or ASCAP royalties...
Died. Ted Snyder, 84, Tin Pan Alleyman, sometime collaborator with Irving Berlin, and composer of Who's Sorry Now? and Sheik of Araby (which he wrote for Rudolph Valentino); charter member with Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa in 1914, of ASCAP; of heart disease; in Encino, Calif...