Word: marimbas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SKELTON SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). John Wayne celebrates his 40th year in movies by joining Red in a few familiar-sounding skits like "The High and the Flighty" and "Hominy and True Grit." The Baja Marimba Band makes music for the occasion...
...most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
Hair Down. Burton's blithe eclecticism started when he began adapting violin and piano music to the vibes and marimba, which he had taken up at the age of six. At eleven, he organized his father, brother and sister into a band that performed around their home town of Princeton, Ind. Later he went on to absorb jazz in club dates at nearby Evansville, country music in recording sessions at Nashville, and classical composition at Boston's Berklee School of Music...
HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass surround themselves with musicians: the Baja Marimba Band, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Liza Minnelli, Jazz Guitarist Wes Montgomery and Songwriter Burt Bacharach...
Wednesday, October 18 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Host Lorne Greene gets assistance from the Baja Marimba Band, Jerry Van Dyke, Barbara Eden, Lou Rawls and Bobby Van to show "How the West Was Swung," a song-and-dance tale of the frontier and its rough-'n'-ready folk...