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China's Instrumental Heritage (Professor Liang Tsai-ping and Group; Lyri-chord). A fascinating collection of Chinese folk songs, dating from the yth to 18th centuries and played on such authentic instruments as the zitherlike cheng, the hsiao ('vertical flute), and the nan-hu (violin). The wiry melodic lines, wavering and falling away, have the delicate but hypnotic fascination of ancient Chinese watercolors, and the songs have subjects to match: Wild Geese Alighting on the Sandy Shore, The Spring River in the Flowery Moonlight...
...block complex on Chicago's West Side, but they are only shadows of the master. He personally sells more than 1.000 cars a year. He has an amazing memory for names, can make total strangers feel that he has known them for years. He touches the common chord with a heavy hand, chatting with women about their children, with men about sports. He plays shamelessly on nationalities. If the customer is Irish, he puts on a brogue. If the customer is Jewish or Italian. Moran has a few phrases to match, and he can put on a German accent...
...Swing, having to do with a bride's premarital jitters. He is now at work on another opera on an American theme, laid in the 1700s. Like his other efforts, it will be resolutely melodic. "I have always felt free," says he, "to use a C major chord when I want...
During the campaign, Democratic orators promised a grand symphony as pure as the lost chord if only a Democratic President was elected to work with the Democratic Congress. But last week, as the various virtuosos of the U.S. Senate began the tune-up for the 87th Congress, the discord sounded hauntingly familiar...
Eric von Schmidt is somewhat furrier than Miss Baez, and he sings differently, too. He sings old Leadbelly songs, Negro blues stuff, with a slow heavy beat, and effectively repititious chord patterns. His songs are humorous and his guitar technique dazzling (a technique which includes the use of a Hayes-Bickford knife to produce at points an odd sort of tone) and his general savoir-faire entirely compensates for the fact that, like many male folk singers, his voice sounds much like Jack Benny's Rochester...