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...with vocal imitations of instruments. He can even accompany himself, crooning the words of a sleepy ballad while making rhythmic clicks deep in his throat to provide a percussive counterpoint. Jarreau's vocal antics on this LP are confined to a guitar (Fire and Rain), flute (Glow) and bass (Hold On). But Jarreau is no mere sound effects man. His husky tenor is agile and warmly appealing...
Starting Monday guitarist Charlie Byrd will appear with his trio at Sandy's. Byrd fancies himself a jazz and classical guitarist--"Blues and Bach" is a trademark. His trio, with brother Joe on bass and Bertrell Knox on drums should provide some interesting club music...
...idea he has added touches of surrealistic humor. For example, the giants Fasolt and Fafner, who gain the magic ring in Das Rheingold in payment for building Valhalla, lumber around on the sagging shoulders of two local weight lifters hidden beneath their cloaks. This joke is painful fun, since Bass Bengt Rundgren, who plays Fafner, is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and weighs...
Margaret started piano lessons at age five, and by eight knew that she wanted to become a conductor. She set about mastering a wide variety of orchestral instruments; she tooted the baritone horn in her high school band and played the double bass in the orchestra at Indiana University. She was also a junior golf champion and a wartime civilian flying instructor for the Navy. When she graduated from college in 1947, one of her teachers warned her that orchestra conducting was a male preserve, and so she went to the Juilliard School to study choral conducting with Robert Shaw...
...piety and commerce, the C.B.A. meeting is the central show of a big business that reflects the shift toward Evangelicalism throughout U.S. religion. The 2,100 C.B.A. stores, which emphasize Evangelical works, grossed $303 million last year and should reach $350 million to $375 million for 1976, estimates John Bass, 50, the able Presbyterian who runs the C.B.A. When Bass first began coming to the conventions, they were populated largely by folks in their 50s who ran dusty little Mom-and-Pop Bible stores. Religion bookshops nowadays are bigger, better located and reaching many more customers. According to the association...