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Golob and Marc Bender '71 had a two-hour interview with Chang Chih-Hsiang, third secretary at the Liaison Office, last October which Golob said was "very encouraging...
...current efforts to absorb Western music. "The fact is," says New York's Daniel Epstein, 27, the superb piano soloist on the LP, "that Yellow River is the favorite music of one-fifth of the world's population, and that alone merits its beingheard." William Bender...
...accompaniment of four pages of color photographs, Associate Editor William Bender this week discusses a unique, and one of the oldest musical forms in the world, the exotic Peking Opera of Taiwan. The opera company's productions are a far cry from the works of George Gershwin, which Bender described in a page-long story in last week's issue. But such shifts in musical forms are routine for Bender who, as music editor since 1968, has written TIME cover stories on subjects ranging from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar to Soprano Beverly Sills to Singer-Composer...
...Bender heartily endorses the observation by Nietzsche that "without music life would be a mistake." His father, an organist, choirmaster and piano teacher in Mamaroneck, N.Y., gave him little opportunity to make that mistake. By the age of four, Bender had devised his own musical notation ("lost to posterity, thrown out with the pail and shovel, I'm afraid"), and by age nine had composed several preludes for the piano. In high school, where he batted .349 and pitched knuckleballs for the baseball team, he considered abandoning music for the major leagues when he was offered a tryout...
Each week in his office Bender plays through ten to 15 new albums and samples another 20 or 30. (When TIME'S book reviewers in adjacent rooms complained that words and music did not mix, his office was soundproofed.) Despite his own credentials, Bender rejects the notion that critics should be performers too. "I've never been one of those who believed you have to play as well as Rubinstein to evaluate Rubinstein's performance," he says. "A critic should know how music is made and be well schooled in its fundamentals. Beyond that, he reacts...