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Amateur Painter. This week, on the 75th anniversary of Gershwin's birth, the music, record and publishing worlds are paying tribute to that originality, and to the man behind it. Among the new LPs, the most irresistible is a Nonesuch release on which William Bolcom plays Gershwin's piano pieces, including the composer's variations on songs like Clap Yo'Hands, S'Wonderful and, of course, Swanee. An exhibition at Manhattan's Hallmark Gallery shows Gershwin to have been versatile enough to double as a gifted amateur painter and caricaturist, if somewhat prone...
Denver has no such worries today. His last four LPs have been million-dollar sellers. Within the past year he has made six specials for BBC, lined up guest-acting stints in the U.S. on both the Owen Marshall and McCloud series, and has two specials in the works for ABC. Last week he taped a Bob Hope special for November airing...
Brahms: Complete String Quartets, Op. 51, Nos. 1 and 2, Op. 67 (The Cleveland Quartet; RCA, 2 LPs, $6.98). Brahms at his melodic, instrumental and unpretentious best in a notable debut recording by a four-year-old group that was formed at Marlboro, Vt., and now is quartet-in-residence at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The Clevelanders (all in their early 30s) play with a rich, ruddy tone and a youthful surge that makes Brahms' difficult string writing (all those double stops, for example) seem as natural as a song...
Nine years ago, Taylor and his wife Theodora moved from Harlem to a five-room cooperative apartment in predominantly white Riverdale. There Taylor likes to relax by sampling the 5,000 LPs and tapes that line one wall (with considerably more pleasure than when he was a deejay looking for broadcast material) and watching reruns of westerns on TV. The Taylors' friends include more doctors, judges and art directors than musicians. Evenings out usually mean a French restaurant and a play or concert-or one of Taylor's innumerable board meetings...
...enough these days of Alice Cooper (the name of both the leader and the group) The group's current twelve-week US tour will probably gross more than $4.5 million before it winds up next week end in New York's Madison Square Garden. Alice Cooper LPs like Killer, Love It To Death and School's Out have each sold more than $1,000,000 worth of copies. The most recent, Billion Dollar Babies, is already a $2,000,000 baby after only four months. Leading department stores round the nation are now stocking the Alice Cooper...