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Once again, music was the focus of ideological attack in China last week. This time, however, the object of scorn was not such decadent bourgeois composers as Beethoven and Schubert, but a Chinese opera with the ponderous title Three Ascents Up Peach Mountain. Performed in Peking in January, the new opera initially provoked nobody's wrath. But now People's Daily has castigated it as an "outrageous attack" on Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary philosophy. The party organ charged that Peach Mountain was a remake of a 1966 opera that ignored class struggle while promoting the Confucianist...
Folk Notes. Dave Buskin, a very good guitarist, songwriter, and singer plays Passim this weekend. Through Sunday, March 17. Call 492-7679 for information...Roger McGuinn, out on his own since the Byrds flew their separate ways, graces The Performance Center with his picking and singing. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils play with him. Through Saturday, March 16, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Call 876-4531 for information...
DANIEL O. TODD Mountain Rest...
King of the mountain was Horace ("Hod") Tabor, a shambling boor and former storekeeper who had grubstaked two starving prospectors to $64.75 worth of provisions. Only ten months later, Hod wound up with the Matchless and other prodigious silver mines that were to earn him as much as $4 million a year - in taxless 1880 dollars. After his first meeting with Baby, who had judiciously selected him as her private grubstake, Hardrock Horace bought off her current protector and made Baby Doe his mistress. No matter that he was 53 and she 23, or that he was married...
...Baby Doe refused to remarry-or rather, she remained faithful to the Matchless. For the next 30 years, she wooed lenders and lawyers, fought off creditors and dug relentlessly into her mine. To no avail. Finally, on March 7, 1935, she was found frozen to death in a mountain shack beside the shaft...