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...been heard more clearly than ever-but visitors have been making all the noise. As the scene of a quadrennial spasm known as the "Fourth Musical Competition of Kerkrade," the town has become the Bayreuth of the marching brasses, the Salzburg of the wood winds, the Milano of the mandolin orchestras. Amateur bandsmen travel thousands of miles to compete in Kerk-rade's concours-this year there were 3,000 of them in 215 bands from 21 countries. When any sizable number of them tuned up and started blasting away together at, say, Berlioz' Roman Carnival overture...
Father Dustin's avocation was born in an alley back home in St. Louis, where, as a boy of seven, he discovered "a busted mandolin in a trash barrel, tuned it like a uke, and started picking at it." Rhythm came naturally; his father was a lyricist and vaudeville performer, his mother a pianist and singer who organized and led a 15-piece, all-male dance band. Father Dustin, who never wanted to be any thing but a priest, nevertheless departed for a seminary at 15 with his banjo on his knee. Assigned after ordination to the Holy Redeemer...
Last week in Nashville, Scruggs, Flatt and their Foggy Mountain Boys (fiddle, mandolin, bass violin, steel guitar) were busy taping enough bluegrass tunes to enable them to leave their daily radio show for one of their frequent concert tours. On the road, dressed in black jackets, red string ties and white Stetson hats, they scramble frantically through Foggy Mountain Special, Randy Lynn Rag, Polka on the Banjo, Shuckin' The Corn, giving each piece the knuckle-cracking momentum and the curiously high-pitched, pinging tone that is the mark of bluegrass style. For a dramatic finisher, Flatt may lift...
...first realized his ideal with the Harvard Glee Club. When the group asked him to be their "coach" in 1912, it was tied to the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, with whom they performed "Mrs. Casey's Boarding House" and "The Bulldog on the Bank," reflecting the ribald good-fellowism and narrow exclusiveness of the time...
FOGG: CONTEMPORORY JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS. a representative collection of twentieth century work illustrating sixty years of Japanese-American friendship--at least, in the realm of art. RECENT ACQUISITIONS: a Sung Dynasty SEATED BUDDHA which the museum claims is "handsome" (Buddha would have modestly denied it); also, THE MANDOLIN by Georges Braque...