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...winners of the annual Harvard Concerto Contest are Norman Letvin, who played the Premiere Rhapsody for clarinet by Debussy, and Ronald Takvorian, who performed Prokofieff's Third Piano Concerto, Both winners will appear as soloists in a forthcoming HRO concert. The other participants were Philip Kraft; Richard Metzler; Jane Meyers; Michael Reisman; William Spady; Jonathan Taylor; and Taite S. Walkenen...
Died. George Lewis, 68, jazz clarinetist of early New Orleans vintage who started strutting to funerals with his $4 clarinet when he was 17, played with such jazz lights of the '20s and '30s as Buddy Petit and Kid Howard, later exported the doleful sound of French Quarter blues to Europe and Japan in a series of boisterously successful tours; of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
...Carol sleeps with a "security blanket," while Pat feels lost without her own well-worn pillow. "I'm messy," says Carol, "and so is she." Don Denzin and James Sherry found companionship in a mutual appreciation of Thoreau's Walden and a joint jam session-Don on clarinet, Jim on guitar. Carol Tucker and Lynn McElroy were delighted by the matching because, as Carol explains it, "we're built the same and are both outdoorsy." That already has led to tennis-playing fun on double dates...
...outset, Androcles' name in Greek-alphabet capitals hovers over the stage. A yellow scrim hangs in front, with sunflowers traced on it. As Tharon Musser's lighting changes, suggestions of a lion's head appear; and shortly some slinky jazz with a perky clarinet over a tonic-dominant ostinato ushers in the Lion (Ted Graeber) with a lioness (Jane Farnol). The two animals perform a semidance pantomime, until the Lion gets rid of his partner. Shaw's script calls for no lioness, but this seems a quite acceptable bit of directorial padding. When alone, the Lion does some pushups, indulges...
Last week, at Manhattan's Town Hall, Schickele presented his latest and most adventurous departure-a chamber-rock-jazz trio called The Open Window, made up of Schickele and Fellow Composers Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden. The group sang and played such instruments as electric piano, organ, bass clarinet and tambourine in a quirky kaleidoscope of their own songs (sample title: 4 a.m. June; The Sky Was Green). The result was a little like spinning a radio dial rapidly over stations that are broadcasting Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson and the Beatles: fascinating but somewhat dizzying. Though...