Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Piano by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (4 disks; $23.25; Desto). Though not a complete collection of Gottschalk's piano works, this sizable sampling runs the gamut from the macabre to the silly, from the awesome to the danceable. Gottschalk's music is a curious and attractive blend of styles-Creole rhythms, American folk tunes, European romanticism-all transformed into brilliant display pieces for a flashy pianist. Mandel plays it all with sufficient flair-and some serious technical shortcomings. But until a better-equipped pianist decides to improve on this set, Mandel gives a sound idea of what this strange...
...dubbed the "uptight liberal" who insists on purity of doctrine, forgets that politics is the business of solving problems, and eats soul food even though he does not like it. By this standard, Moynihan qualifies as a downright loose liberal. He is loose in ideology-perfectly willing to blend liberal with conservative programs. He is loose in party affiliation, having served both Democratic and Republican administrations. He even acts loose. Amid the good gray personalities of the Nixon Administration Moynihan sports sideburns, drinks his whisky straight and displays a puckish humor...
...Colombian coast. "Nothing interesting has happened to me since," he has said. His experiences there were eventually transformed into a tenderly comic novel, just published in the U.S. after three years of enormous success in Latin America. It has survived export triumphantly. In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum calentano, the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind...
...their confidence, the Japanese are enduring acute modernization pangs. Until a century ago, Japan was semifeudal, primarily agricultural and almost totally insulated. Today it is a sometimes baffling blend of West and East...
...Band. The group plays 15 instruments proficiently, and employs as many as ten in concert. The instruments are played without gimmicks-there is no fuzz bass, no reverb, no echo to The Band. The emphasis is on talent, unaltered ability, and the result is a near-perfect blend of keyboards, guitars, and percussion...