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Latter-Day Alchemist. The plot is standard. An ambitious small-town disk jockey makes a tape of a teenager named Anna Lou Schreckengost singing at a country-club dance and sends it to Sid Harper, A. & R. man at Manhattan's Blackwood Records. Anna Lou and her grandmother are flown to New York for an audition...
...young U.S. composers, like poets and novelists, turning beat? The New York Times's Howard Taubman suggested the question last week in commenting on the New York premiere of Symphony No. 1 by 25-year-old Indianapolis-born Easley Blackwood. The work's jaded tone, said Critic Taubman, marked it as "a reflection of the beat generation...
...Blackwood's composition, performed by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony, was grave, withdrawn, and emotionally muted to a kind of rasping, wearied monotone. It nevertheless revealed Blackwood as a skilled technician and a stoutly original musical thinker. The winner of a recording project prize last season, the symphony will be released commercially by RCA Victor...
...Bridge Expert Easley Blackwood, father of the Blackwood four-notrump convention, Composer Blackwood studied at Yale under Paul Hindemith, moved on to Paris, where he became a student of Nadia Boulanger, for 35 years the musical nanny of top U.S. composers (TIME, Sept. 30, 1957). Now an instructor in the music department at the University of Chicago, Blackwood insists that his composition has no direct connection "with the times in which we live." Does he regard himself as beat? "Anybody looking at my picture," says Blackwood, "could tell that...
...less an authority than Charles Goren, Gruenther also became the bridge mentor of his sometime boss, Dwight Eisenhower, the first good bridge player among U.S. Presidents. *The tournament team headed by Houston Bridge Pro John Gerber devised the Gerber convention in 1937 as a less troublesome substitute for the Blackwood, invented in 1933 by Indianapolis Insuranceman Easley Blackwood. Instead of using the Blackwood four-no-trump bid to ask partner how many aces he has, the Gerber convention starts out with four clubs, with partner responding four diamonds for one ace, four hearts...