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...Freeman (Capitol LP). Tenor Saxman Freeman was a 1936-38 feature of the great Tommy Dorsey band. His way with such tunes as Three Little Words, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, etc. is fresh, insolent, rugged, mellow-depending on the subtle humors of music and musician...
Dallapiccola: Tartiniana (Ruth Posselt, violin; Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Italy's most famed modernist in a mellow mood. Two of the four movements start with themes by 18th century Violinist-Composer Tartini, then gradually, smoothly warm up to entrancing modernity. All of the movements seem to weave Tartini's melodies serenely for a while, then get involved in the implications of their own patterns; at other times the old tunes appear in a kind of bas-relief against a background of alien dissonance. A fascinating composition...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8 (French National Orchestra conducted by the composer; Angel). The eighth of Villa-Lobos' nine important works inspired by Bach and flavored by Brazil in its first recording. The music is mellow, slightly warmer than body heat, touched with musical humor in the paso doble part of the second movement, and generally more relaxed than the music of temperate climes...
...Despite Manager Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky's earnest efforts to mind his manners, his hard-hitting, pitcher-poor St. Louis Cardinals have been limping along in sixth place. It was all too mild and mellow for Cardinal President August Anheuser Busch Jr. Last week he fired Stanky, gave his job to Harry ("The Hat") Walker, onetime National League batting champion (in 1947 with .363), who has spent the past three seasons managing the Cardinals' Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League...
...spring's tender new shoots peeped from the wintry canes of his vines, Bertrand's plans were made. His own 47-foot cutter Lord Jim hung impatiently at her mooring on the Gironde. Her lockers were tenderly stowed with the finest output of the local vineyards-mellow...