Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martin said the other entertainers will be Sabby Lewis, a piano player who specializes in the "Blues"; Vic Dickinson and the Mahogany Hall All-Starts, a Dixieland Band; Jan Strickland, recording artist; the Wellesley Widows, a group of eight singers from Wellesley College; and freshmen Steve Addis at guitar and Bunny Kuller at piano. William Kaufman '57 will M.C. the show...
...bilingual lawyers mainly concerned with setting up and financing mining, farming, insurance, import-export, banking and oil companies. Business has also taken Holland on fre quent trips to Central and South America. He lives with his wife Betty and three children in a three-bedroom house, plays a "passable" guitar and shuns the oil-rich Houston social life...
...easy to see why Berlioz is called the "father of modern orchestration." In Mephisto's sardonic serenade, for instance, plucked strings serve as a monstrous guitar-like accompaniment; in the Ride to the Abyss, woodwinds croak like vultures and wild hoofbeats run through the strings. But the Damnation of Faust is not a mere succession of orchestral and choral "effects." Besides dramatic fireworks, it contains pages of melodic beauty--like Marguerite's Romance--that place it among the most inspired works of the Romantic period...
...those traits of character that are usually thought to mark the outstanding man. He was an indifferent student at his home town's George Washington High School. He took no part in athletics. He worked part time in his uncle's drugstore and plunked away on the guitar; among his friends he was a follower, never a leader. He had no great desire to join the armed services, but when he became 19, in 1951, he picked the Navy without seeming to know quite...
Django Reinhardt (Clef LP). French jazz in the modern manner, played by Paris' late guitar favorite and his combo. Softer in texture and drive than U.S. jazz, the selections still have authentic jazz feeling. Included: a frothy little number called Blues...