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Strange Sounds. The focal point of Goodman's house, however, remains the music studio. He practices almost daily, plays for friends at parties, and often works on classical pieces with his daughter Rachel, 24, an accomplished amateur pianist. "After all," he says, "this is my life-music. I couldn't be content any other way." He even seems to have made his peace with the rapid evolution of jazz styles away from swing in the past two decades. Not that he approves. "I can understand the modern in classical music-in a composer like Bartok, for example...
...concert pianist who pays him to stay away, the drifter composes pleasant little themes for the ladies he sleeps with-a slow-witted waitress, a sloe-eyed French chanteuse (Sadja Marr). The singer has a little boy who may be Alan's and who, like the drifter, improvises every moment as it comes. In the end, Alan tries to create a theme for the child, and finds his fingers inarticulate. It proves to be the one relationship that he cannot end with "Ciao, baby...
...home in Milan, where she has lived since 1950. The plaintive Eleanor Rigby, a lament for lonely people, impressed her as "one of the most beautiful I'd heard in years." She began spicing her recital programs with Beatle numbers, arranged in classic styles by artists such as Pianist Peter Serkin, who scored a contrapuntal Bachground for Yesterday. She has now recorded a dozen Beatle songs on an LP called Revolution, which was recently released in the U.S. on the Fontana label in a jacket that sedulously apes the Beatles' last album, Revolver...
Special credit should go to pianist Philip Morehead for assembling the program and arranging to have it performed at Harvard. On leave from the Music Department this year, he will be returning in the fall as the music tutor of Lowell House. If Friday's concert was a preview of his plans for next year, music lovers have great deal to which they can look forward...
Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent...