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Crucial Audition. Former Goodman students now occupy most of the major first-chair percussion spots in the U.S. One of them, Roland Kohloff of the San Francisco Symphony, is succeeding Goodman at the Philharmonic. So motherly is Goodman about watching out for his big drum-beating family that he once had Buster Bailey audition for the St. Louis Symphony in place of another candidate, Bob Matson, also a Goodman student, who happened to be out of town. Apparently on the theory that one Goodman product is as good as another, Matson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ruffs and Drags | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...Kansas City) Carr. Miss Welch, it soon becomes apparent, is not well cast. Although she attempts a measure of characterization by jawing some gum, she never succeeds at being tough enough. Whizzing around the rink, pursued and periodically clobbered by banshee competitors on every side, she looks like a drum majorette who has just lost her football team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Sports | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Harvard-Radcliffe SDS spent most of last year waging a prominent campaign against Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology. Herrnstein, whose theories concerning the inheritability of intelligence were labelled "racist" by SDS, is on leave this year and the organization will have to look for new issues to drum up support...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Radicals Counter Traditional Orientation | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Reed himself keeps prancing on his drum, preaching the glories of HooDoo culture. It is a welcome alternative to the bludgeoning lectures of LeRoi (Imamu Baraka) Jones. Or is it? The club is a quicker and more merciful weapon than the feather. -R.Z. Sheppard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...phrased duet with Ballard during the break. The transitions between chorus bridge and break are smooth--repeated listening shows this to be one of the band's strong points. Though Ballard doesn't play a solo here, he gets by with some nice chorzs over a syncopated bass and drum lick...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: There's Silver in the Mainstream | 7/18/1972 | See Source »

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