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DIED. Lennie Tristano, 59, pianist, teacher and composer, who was a pioneer of cool, light, fluid jazz; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. A Chicago boy blinded by measles at nine, Tristano later experimented with welding classical music to jazz and developed his own style of long melodic lines and shifting harmonies. Organizing several combos, he allowed each musician to play his own melody in his own key and rhythm with results that anticipated by a decade the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman...
...Trousdale Estates section of Beverly Hills, where liveried attendants park the cars and the houses are modeled after Tiberius' villas on Capri. The table was authentic Chippendale, the service gold leaf, the goblets and tableware gold. A chamber trio played. Among the guests: a history professor, a concert pianist, the wife of a German philosopher. And beside her: a young actor in a shimmering silk T shirt with a yo-yo appliqued on its front; the guests all deferred to him as he discussed his hit TV show. The yo-yo's weekly salary was something more than the yearly...
...inescapable reason for the flowering of chamber music is economic: a top group can be engaged for around $4,500, compared with up to $15,000 a night for a diva or a virtuoso pianist. Another attraction is that the repertoire is seemingly limitless in number (hundreds of string quartets alone) and variety (duos for two, nonets for nine). The Juilliard String Quartet plays 600 works from three centuries. Other groups, like the Theater Chamber Players and the 20th Century Consort, both in Washington, D.C., focus heavily on contemporary works. Says Sergiu Luca, founder of the popular Chamber Music Northwest...
...decades he has been a leader in the drive to create artificial intelligence through computer technology. Says he: "My mind works according to laws and mechanisms, not some mysterious mind fluid." In his 29 years at CMU, Simon has proved a talented administrator and teacher. A painter and pianist, Simon also served on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Lyndon Johnson...
...Pianist Randolph Nichols plays Mozart, Brahins, POULENC AND Chpin. At Longy School of Music, 1 Follen St., Cambridge, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets at $3.00. Call 861-0497 for info...