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...thunderstorm or a subway train. Classically trained, Steig (son of Cartoonist William Steig) hums into as well as plays his amplified flute, mixes shimmering, bluesy cascades of notes with jabbing, rhythmic interjections, sometimes bending tones into piercing dissonances, sometimes dissolving into trills or fluttery tremolos. Jazz Critic Whitney Balliett describes Steig's musical message as "messianic, for it suggests the way out of the gloomy muddle that jazz has fallen into." > Larry Coryell, 24, guitarist in the Gary Burton Quartet. Coryell builds exciting, unpredictable solos with clusters of freshly turned chords, tantalizing silences, sudden vaulting runs leading into intense...
Under Shawn, few deliberate changes have been made in The New Yorker (exception: a jazz buff himself, Shawn has added an excellent jazz column written by Whitney Balliett). Says one New Yorkerite: "Ross was the innovator. Shawn is the curator." Another puts it more harshly: "It's the difference between genius and talent...
...championship (TIME, March 16), but we are also quite proud of another Dartmouth man, one Daniel Webster, who fought one of the greatest legal battles in U.S. history to keep us Dartmouth College and prevent us from becoming Dartmouth University, as you so carelessly called us . . . PIERRE B. BALLIETT '56 Dartmouth College Hanover...
...Williams have elected the following class day orators: President of the Day, Irwin Mc. D. Garfield, of Mentor, O.; Marshals, L. M. Starr, New York City, and R. G. Mead, of Sing Sing, N. Y.; Orator, J. D. Murphy, Mt. Stewart, P. E. I.; Ivy Orator, L. G. Balliett, Lockport, N. Y.; Poet, A. K. Willyoung, Buffalo; and Prophet, Charles T. Ennis, Lyons...
...Yale crew were able to take advantage of the fine weather the latter part of last week, and have rowed upon the harbor, instead of using the tank. The candidates for the crew were weighed last Saturday evening with the following results: Balliett '92, 169 1-2; Graves '92 S., 175; Ives '92, 177; Gallaudet, 172; Rogers, '93, 150; Chatfield '93, 169; Howland '94, 170; Paine '94, 188; Van Huyck '93 S., 174; Messler '94 S., 174; Sanford '94 S., 181; Kinney '95, 174; Hartwell...