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Husky Alto. Drawing on pop's musical past, Savannah synthesizes the sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
...surface, it is an extremely impressive journalistic work. Sheehan spent over a year with her subject and seems to know everything one in her position possibly could about the woman--Carmen Santana--and her daily routines. But, as extensive as her knowledge may be, she keeps to herself what is no doubt the most fascinating and necessary aspect of a welfare mother's life--her emotions--and instead shares with us only what pertains to her economic survival...
Despite these insights, reading A Welfare Mother is an excruciatingly frustrating experience. The typical reader might mutter back at the author, "But what did she say?" The text is an ambling description that lacks any clues to the humanity behind the name Carmen Santana. It is written as a newspaper article, in crisp, clear, objective, unemotional prose, and from start to finish the journalistic facade never cracks...
...Carmen Santana is a welfare mother. She lives in a four-room apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn with the four children she had by a man named Vicente Santana, whom she lived with from 1959, when she first came to New York from Puerto Rico, until 1969. A present member of the household is Francisco Delgado, whom she took up with some months before she and Mr. Santana parted...
...with Columbia to make four records a year until 1982, when he will be 100. He has already taped some Tchaikovsky for Columbia and an album of his own transcriptions of Bach and Chopin. Last week's session with the National Philharmonic was devoted to Bizet's Carmen Suite. It is a work familiar to both conductor and orchestra, but still excitement ran high. Stokowski's fabled white mane is now a bit thin and shaggy, but the long, tapered hands still work their expressive magic. So does his pinpointing look. "One conducts with or without...