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While the Canadian diplomatic party was whisked away in black Russian Zil autos, the press corps was crowded into two old camouflaged Russian buses. But the ride into Hanoi was almost pastoral: no soldiers in sight, no guns, no artillery; merely peasants with their straw hats, peacefully working the nearby...
"Evening Blue" is the only artistic failure. It's a nice melody, badly realized. The failures are mostly Roger Hawkins's. His snare drum work is flat, and detracts from the overall lightness. So do Rebop's congas. Wood's sax solo is short, disjointed and cliched. The song's...
Pastoral and elegiac in mood, Duo for Flute and Piano is a chamber-music gem that should become a staple of the scant flute literature. In it, Copland returns to the comparatively simple harmonic and melodic world of Appalachian Spring, though the piece is far from simple to play. "Ai...
Stolen Goods, Gems Lifted from the Masters; The Outrageous Dr. Teleny's Incredible Plugged-in Orchestra (Zack Laurence conducting; RCA quadradisc, $5.98). The cover of this album shows a James Bond type suspended by rope above an alarm-rigged floor making a heist of some bejeweled busts of the...
There are those who regard Mendelssohn's music as precious and superficial. It is true that Mendelssohn could not, like Schubert, say "My music is the product of my genius and my misery." He knew no misery, neglect or disappointment, neither the gloom of Beethoven nor the melancholy of...