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...harmonica-playing sea captain, Carmines was born 35 years ago in Hampton, Va. Until age 17, he I planned to become a concert pianist, Then he took stock of his keyboard talents and decided on the ministry instead. "But in college at Swarthmore," he says, "I became an atheist. Later on I realized that you don't have to be a fanatic to believe in God, so I grew out of that." After graduating from Union Theological Seminary, he went to Judson Memorial and was assigned to form a church theatrical group. Carmines accepted on two conditions: no censorship...
...Blue left many of his papers when he died. This record contributes a great deal to our knowledge of Porter, dredging up songs which reveal a characteristic Porter flair, singing them as Porter himself would have. Short is a performer of great talent, both as a vocalist and as pianist. His two record set may be the finest tribute to Porter's talent yet produced...
...grins triumphantly, as if to explain that that's of course how it would come out. Around him the Mather House dining room is converting to its night-time role: a small forest of music stands has popped up; guitar amps, an organ, and drums are lugged in; the pianist is jamming with the two flutes; the crew checks the stage lighting, fading in and out on the three performers doing their warm-ups. Tom Johnson, the music director, stops by to check details, as do five others in the next fifteen minutes. The room is noisy and alive...
...Lifchitz, pianist, playing his works and those of Presichetti, Prado, Berio, Morton Feldman, and Hindemith. Currier House SCR. 8:30, May 6. Free...
...other living winners included: in biography (a category formerly combined with history), Joseph Lash's splendidly affectionate Eleanor and Franklin (Norton); in arts and letters, Pianist Charles Rosen's demanding study of The Classical Style in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (Viking); in science, George L. Small's ecological lament for the disappearance of The Blue Whale (Columbia University); in philosophy and religion, Martin E. Marty's Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (Dial); and for translation, Austryn Wain-house's heroic failure to quite transform French Nobel Prizewinner Jacques Monod...