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...Portman has ever written put together. Already in its sixth printing, it has been showered with positive reviews. Will Ferrell's film company just bought the film rights, and, per society's new semiotics of success, coolly disaffected kids are obscurely celebrating the book's catchphrase by wearing SAM HELLERMAN IS A GENIUS T shirts...
...impossibly brilliant 14-year-old character, when taking a break from getting beaten up and riddling through confused if well-meaning lectures from his righteous Bay Area stepfather, works on his rock band, which exists only in his mind: "The Nancy Wheelers, [with] me on guitar, Sam Hellerman on bass and Ouija board, first album: Margaret? It's God. Please Shut...
...Trumpet (Gerard Schwarz, trumpet, Ursula Oppens, piano, play Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Lucia Dlugozewski's Space Is a Diamond, and William Hellerman's Passages 13-The Fire, Nonesuch; $2.98). All too often avant-garde music looms as a forbidding wilderness of inhospitable sounds. Not this album of contemporary trumpet music performed by versatile Trumpeter Schwarz. The Sonata by Davies, who also composed the opera Taverner, is sequential but melodic. Composer Dlugozewski, who studied with Varese, employs a variety of mutes and experimental techniques without sacrificing emotional content. Composer Hellerman, a Columbia University faculty...
PETE SEEGER: I CAN SEE A NEW DAY (Columbia). Everyone seems to take his new songs to Pete. Fred Hellerman, for example, handed him his new, gospel-like prayer for Mississippi (Healing River) just before Seeger flew down there last summer. Pete also sings some traditional ballads (Follow the Drinkin' Gourd) and his own haunting Bells of Rliymney...
Because Hays and Gilbert only sing, the whole responsibility for instrumental background falls on Darling and Fred Hellerman. The extraordinary competence of both, particularly Hellerman on the guitar, is a large factor in the cohesion and warmth of the group. Darling sticks to the long-necked banjo most of the time, but switched to guitar for a solo number where he gave a fairly good rendition of some bottle neck blues...