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...BACH: MOTETS (Archiv, 2 LPs...
...indeed, with 200 concerts a year, some even on musical cruises in the Mediterranean, and new LPs pouring out from RCA, Angel and the mailorder Musical Heritage Society (he has sold 400,000 records for the latter alone)? What spare time Andre has he spends at home in Fontainebleau with his wife Liliane and three of his four children: Lionel, 14, Beatrice, 13, and Nicola, 2; Daughter Dominique, 21, recently made him a grandfather. Andre has a habit of taking long walks and practicing his trumpet deep in the woods. Early one morning after a concert in Munich, Andre drove...
...serious black American music-as opposed to jazz and the blues. Within the past year the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has devoted a week-long festival to Still and other black composers. Columbia Records has issued the first four albums of an ambitious new black-composers series. One of the LPs offers Still's Afro-American Symphony (1930), a prismatically scored, blues-flavored gem and, incidentally, the first symphony ever written by a black American. Last week in Jackson, Miss., the only professional black opera company in the U.S., a 3½-year-old group called Opera/South, presented the world...
Tape machines were going all the while. But unrecognized for what they were after his death, some 600 to 800 hours' worth were shipped off to a warehouse and forgotten. Last spring, having issued three posthumous Hendrix LPs and run out of material, Warner Bros. Records asked a former Hendrix producer, Alan Douglas, if he knew of any other tapes. "I sure did," says Douglas, who had spent many an evening at the Electric Lady. "I thought everyone knew about the warehouse tapes." Douglas has listened to 250 hours' worth of reels and thinks he has enough stuff...
...Despite the expected overstatement, your story on the various species of rock audiences did contain its modicum of truth. One thing your reviewer failed to note, however: some groups display a nearly schizophrenic change between concert, performance and album. The recent LPs of Hot Tuna and the Grateful Dead, for instance, have been finely wrought blends of virtuosity and lyricism...