Word: banjo
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...experts, the basic cause of the bull market in folk music-which has been coming on ever since World War II-is the do-it-yourself trend: folk audiences, unlike jazz audiences, like to participate in the music they admire. At Newport last week, many spectators brought along banjos and guitars with their sleeping bags and sat around campfires on the beaches strumming far into the night. (In the last three years, U.S. banjo sales have increased...
...three plays, much the richest and finest is the old No play, where distance in time mates well with that of place; where everything is the more ritualized for being more barbaric; where there is a splendid show of costume and music (the chief instrument is the banjo-like samisen), of processions and dancing. Here, too, the story is the universal one of the resourceful servant, who in this case plays a serious role: he gets his disguised young master past a hostile mountain barrier. Among many felicities, the acting and formal dancing of Shoroku II,* as the retainer, stand...
...Dukes are headed by two brothers from New Orleans: Frank and Fred Assunto. Trumpeter Frank, 28, and Trombonist Fred, 30, learned to play from their father, a onetime high school music teacher and now a regular member of the seven-man band (trombone and banjo). Too young to hear original Dixieland, the brothers listened to the New Orleans greats on records, played on weekends (for $3 a night) in pickup combos, formed their first band while they were still in high school. Their recent success they owe chiefly,to records: Audio Fidelity has issued eleven fast-selling albums...
...lost the job twice before, banjo-thwanging Charlie Grimm, 61, accepted with casual aplomb the announcement that he had again been fired as manager of the Chicago Cubs, a team he had led to three pennants in 14 seasons, which lost eleven of its first 16 games this year. Jolly Cholly's successor: Lou Boudreau, now a double-chinned 42, the old shortstop who was just 31 when he managed the Cleveland Indians to the 1948 pennant, later was canned himself by Cleveland, Boston and Kansas City...
...People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...