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Carmines' music is extravagantly eclectic. He writes songs about war, Joan of Arc, peace, Gertrude Stein, pornography, Jesus Christ and W.C. Fields, all in a stylistic gamut that runs from Monteverdi to Montenegro. His favorite form is an extension of the turn-of-the-century ballad, on which he imposes anything that catches his fancy: tangos, hillbilly hymns, blues, echoes, jazz, gospel shouts, Puccini pastiches...
Like the concert, Elementary Doctor Watson! includes no chaff. The cuts, all good, run the gamut from Jimmie Rodgers to Tom Paxton to George Gershwin, Doc and Merle infuse Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" with the same honest feeling that they devote to the traditional numbers on which Doc made his start. One of Merle Watson's own compositions. "Interstate Rag," provides a catchy, rhythmic showcase for his agile banjo playing and, again, for his father's mastery of the guitar...
...list to get the Almanac published. It has become a word-of-mouth bestseller already. In the six weeks before publication date (Feb. 24), 25,000 copies in hard-cover ($12.95) and paperback ($4.95) have already been sold. Apparently there is an audience for political specifics that run the gamut from a district-by-district breakdown of federal spending to a concise catalogue of the nation's top 50 defense contractors and their yearly earnings from the Government...
Spiritist rites run the gamut from sanitized middle-class meetings with benches set out for tourists, to clandestine nightlong orgies in forest grottos. Whatever the style, all groups believe in a family of "spirits" or orixas, who usually resemble Christian saints. Thus lemanjá, the sea goddess, is identified with the Virgin Mary and Oxóssi with St. Sebastian...
...hall with rich, vibrant and joyously reverberant highs, lows and middles. The opera house's acoustical turn came on Friday, with the premiere of Beatrix Cenci by Argentinian Master Alberto Ginastera. It was produced by the Opera Society of Washington. Brutal and bloody, the work runs a full gamut of orchestral and vocal sound. It proved beyond doubt that the opera house is one of the best-sounding auditoriums...