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ROBERT GOULET: BEGIN TO LOVE (Columbia). Goulet applies the bellows impartially to twelve fine old favorites. His baritone is as rich and powerful as ever, but the arrangements are unusually distracting. In one bizarre number, Bob is breaking The Still of the Night while his pianist is purposefully noodling out a classical two-part invention...
...musicians have a special paradise, it will be like this," remarked Japanese Cellist Ko Iwasaki as he gazed around a sunlit meadow. Pianist Rudolf Serkin was in animated conversation with Conductor Eugene Ormandy. Hungary's greatest living composer, Zoltán Kodály, 82, and his blonde wife Sarolta, 26, were talking over old times with Cellist Pablo Casals, 89, and his dark-haired wife Marta, 24. Under an oak tree Violinists Shmuel Ashkenasi (from Israel) and Charles Avsharian (from the U.S.) were playing a bridge game with Tenor Jon Humphrey (Robert Shaw Chorale soloist) and Horn Player...
...Musical Setting of the Eucharist, performed in May at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, Pianist Vince Guaraldi took Anglican plain chant as his starting point. The flowing Gregorian tunes were chanted by a 68-member chorus while Guaraldi improvised back of it with his trio, shifting the mood with the spirit of the prayer. "Lord, Have Mercy" is crisp and plaintive, with a syncopated Latin rhythm; the Communion anthem is a waltzlike blues with a flowing melodic line. The "Theme for Grace" at the Offertory, with a chorus crooning the syllables of "hallelujah," reminded some listeners of mood-setting...
Withdrawing to a mansion in Arezzo with his pianist wife, he established a renowned year-round school for some 40 hand-picked students, including Argentina's Martha Argerich, who this year won Poland's prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition (TIME, March 26). More like a Renaissance patron than a schoolmaster, Michelangeli also instructed his students in the selection of fine wines and gourmet foods ("I cannot teach if I cannot also teach the art of living and cooking...
Died. Claude Thornhill, 55, pianist bandleader, whose sweet, glossy arrangements of jazz and popularized classics (Warsaw Concerto, Nutcracker Suite), as well as his own compositions (Snowfall), swung high in the big-band era from 1939 to 1947, thereafter maintained a respectable success at college proms and the few remaining big-time dance halls, such as Manhattan's Roseland, Atlantic City's Steel Pier; of a heart attack; in Caldwell...