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...held tight rein over their orchestras and insisted on perfection in their performers. Like Barbirolli, Szell was a distinguished soloist in his own right. To a far greater degree than Barbirolli, he pursued his career as an instrumentalist all his life, and at his death was a fine concert pianist...
...group got started in San Francisco about four years ago. It included Pianist-Organist Gregg Rolie, Guitarist Carlos Santana, Bass Guitarist Dave Brown and two others now departed. At first they called themselves the Santana Blues Band and were the idol of San Francisco's heavily Spanish Mission District. In early 1969, they were joined by Jose Areas (conga drums, trumpet, timbales), Mike Carrabello (conga drums) and Mike Shrieve (drums). From the beginning, the group has been managed by a music-struck local barber named Stan Marcum...
...does not produce many either. An oboist, brilliant pianist and sometime composer ("mostly for myself"), Thomas has been conducting professionally since the age of 20, when he became the leader of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in his native Los Angeles. Since then, he has worked as an assistant to Pierre Boulez at Bayreuth and California's Ojai Festival, rehearsed the orchestra for the famous Heifetz-Piatigorsky concerts. If Thomas seems to enjoy the performing aspects of conducting, that is natural. His grandfather, Boris Thomashefsky, was a founder of the Yiddish theater in New York. His father...
Chopin? This is no ordinary roustabout, no average hardhat. This is a supergypsy, Robert Eroica Dupea, scion of a musical family, gifted pianist and older brother of the easy riders of 1969. Indeed, the same studio that produced Easy Rider has manufactured an undrugged, mature version of that film, complete with central emblem: the road as panacea. But now, if something in the plot has thickened, something in the pulse has slowed...
...circumstance are enough to drive Robert to the family home on an island in Puget Sound. There he views the wreckage of three lives. His autocratic father is paralyzed by strokes; his brother is a priggish martinet; his rabbity sister Tita (Lois Smith), an accomplished recital pianist, still looks as if someone is about to rap her knuckles for improper fingering...