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STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Columbia). The year's most distinguished musical makes the year's best original-cast LP. i AM A SONG (RCA). England's empress of the jazz song, Cleo Laine, in a scintillating U.S. recording debut...
...WIVES OF HENRY VIII (A & M). Using everything from synthesizers to pipe organs, England's Rick Wakeman has produced a provocative rock LP (not a score from the movie or TV series of the same name...
...Lieberson's first moves after taking over was to give a push to an already conceived twelve-LP package devoted entirely to black composers from the 18th century to the present. Further, Columbia's February release will feature new American music by Leon Kirchner, George Crumb and Morton Subotnick. Lieberson has also given the green light to record everything ever written by Charles Ives...
...command, he made one of his first projects the first recording of Pierrot Lunaire with the composer Arnold Schoenberg conducting. It was something that only an ex-composer would have fought for. The album bombed financially on 78 r.p.m., but finally made back the investment when transferred to LP a decade later...
Moondog Matinee: The Band (Capitol; $5.98). Until the release next month of the group's debut LP for Elektra/Asylum with Old Crony Bob Dylan, Band buffs will have to settle for this serenade to the juke joints of old. Robbie Robertson and colleagues have never turned their backs on the good old days of rock 'n' roll when they worked as the Hawks. In this newly recorded collection of golden oldies by the likes of Chuck Berry (Promised Land) and Fats Domino (I'm Ready), it is easy to see why. Is there another rock combo...