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...with the stuff clearly throbs on. "Black denim" jeans, the dark, stiff kind that James Dean wore, are big sellers right now, as are the sexy, $32-and-up numbers put out by big-name designers. The blue-textile phenomenon may well have passed its sales prime, says Norman Karr, executive director of the Men's Fashion Association, "but there are many good years left...
...people, that exemplar of wholesomeness Pat Boone. With Daughter Debbie he appeared on TV to claim that all four of his daughters had found a preparation named Acne-Statin a "real help" in keeping their skins clear. The FTC has filed a complaint against the manufacturer, Karr Preventative Medical Products, Inc., of Beverly Hills, contending that the product does not really keep skin free of blemishes. Last week it got Boone to sign a consent order in which he promised not only to stop appearing in the ads but to pay about 2.5% of any money that...
...Many of Karr's techniques are self-taught. Raised in a musical family in which the father, grandfather, two uncles and three cousins all played the bass, he took up the instrument at nine "without even knowing there were other instruments." He made such rapid progress that he soon ranged beyond the conventional approach to the bass. He studied with a cellist, a pianist and even with Singer Jennie Tourel ("the greatest influence on my phrasing and musical ideas"). After a 1962 appearance in one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started...
...Gunther Schuller's wispy, astringent Concerto for Double Bass and Chamber Orchestra, which the New York Philharmonic premiered under Schuller's baton last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall. While the 20-minute work scarcely explored the lyrical side of the bass, it did give Karr plenty of opportunity to display an awesome technique. Bowing and plucking in quick succession, deftly grabbing knotty clusters of double-stops, he skittered from basso groans up to ghostly coloratura harmonics, shading effortlessly from the sound of a human voice to that of a bee buzzing in a bottle...
After his final pizzicato plink, he walked over to shake hands with the bassists in the orchestra. But Karr the revolutionary was hardly making peace with the old guard. "In ten years, orchestral bassists will really hate me," he says cheerfully, "and I hope they will. It's the only way they'll change...