Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first performance three years ago. After an interval in which Webern's fame has grown tremendously, Boulez' piece has become more accessible, although it remains a rather tough puzzle. Certainly it has far more surface attraction than the Stockhausen recorded here: Boulez call for alto flute, xylorymba, vibraphone, guitar, viola, and several exotic percussion instruments. Four of the nine sections are settings of surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled with the wide intervals and the high...
...Cleveland-and Elyria-are out of effective range. But high spirits burst out, sometimes beerily. Night climbing expeditions have been known to ascend the lumpish fagades of classroom buildings, and a recent visitor saw two happy collegians reeling along on a motorcycle, one sitting backwards and whanging a guitar...
...undergraduate years, Jack Reed joined the Christian Association, St. Paul's Society, the Memorial Society, Debating Club, Oracle, Round Table, Dramatic Club, Symposium, Hasty Pudding--and became captain of the water polo team, Ibis of the Lampoon, Editor of the Monthly, manager of the Banjo, Glee, Guitar and Mandolin Clubs, and President of the Western and Cosmopolitan Clubs...
...intense young man. He has a near-flawless technique and a fine rhythmic sense. He elicits from his lute a wide variety of timbres and articulations, and phrases carefully--virtues he shares with Segovia, his teacher. Originally a pianist, he now divides his time between the lute and the guitar. It is only a shame that such a splendid artist cannot devote his full time to each...
Died. Phil Cook, 65, jaunty, guitar-strumming comedian of early radio, best known as the "Quaker Oats Man" who could play as many as 13 different parts on one show in a baffling variety of voices; after long illness; in Morristown...