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...ebullient, frizzy-haired "Sasha" Schneider is, at 59, a second fiddler the likes of which chamber music has rarely seen. Whirling like a dervish around the fringes of the limelight, he is not only a tireless performer but also an enormously influential catalyst and organizer, teacher and tastemaker. Wherever he goes, music seems to happen around him through a sort of spontaneous combustion...
...Moon in June. Soul music is sincerity, a homely distillation of everybody's daily portion of pain and joy. "It pulls the cover off," explains Jim Stewart, a former banker and country fiddler who heads Memphis' soul-oriented Stax Records. "It's not the moon in June. It's life. Sometimes it's violence and sex. That's the way it is in this world. Sometimes there's animal in it; but let's face it, we've got a lot of animal in us." The difference between Tin Pan Alley and Soul is not hard to define. A conventional...
...DELIGHTFULEE (Blue Note). Trumpeter Morgan's first big hit was The Sidewinder, a snaky, funky groove running straight to bedrock. Now he is back with more constructions on the same foundation. His confident phraseology in the Beatles' hit Yesterday and in Sunrise Sunset from the Broadway hit Fiddler on the Roof is set against brief but velvety arrangements by Oliver Nelson. His finest flights, however, are in his own compositions, Zambia and Nite Flite, while his perking Latin treatment of Ca-Lee-So is spiciest...
Nostalgia is recollection in tranquillity, and it tends to tell the past the way it wasn't. The friendly Cossacks of Fiddler on the Roof are light-years away from the cavalrymen who conducted the ruthless pogroms of turn-of-the-century Russia. Nor were the flocks of immigrants, herded through Ellis Island, the ebullient innocents who people The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. Both shows lean heavily on their Jewish orientation, but where Fiddler is a folk musical of size and substance, Kaplan is a minimusical of sweetness...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jack Benny stops in to host "Fiddler on the Loose" with such guests as Concert Violinist Michael Rabin, Brazilian Singer Astrud Gilberto, Pianist Liberace and "The Waukegan String Quartet," which includes violins bowed by Rabin, Benny and Comedian Henny Youngman and cello by Morey Amsterdam...