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Charles Mingus has been a pioneer in jazz improvisation for about the last 20 years. As a bass player, Mingus has headed up numerous combinations, every one of them exploring free form in jazz. His performances this week, nightly at the jazz Workshop, will serve as a good indication of what everybody else will be playing five years from now. 733 Boylston St. nightly until Sunday...
Company watchers say that the decision signals no fundamental change in Pan Am. Chairman William Seawell has set the company on an austere course, cutting not only routes but personnel. The atmosphere is a far cry from the days of Pioneer Trippe's preeminence. Even after he resigned as chairman in 1968, nominations to the board were routinely submitted to Trippe for approval; he preferred men who cut an elegant figure, either romantic or old-school-tie. Foremost among them: the late Charles Lindbergh...
...board the American ship Pioneer Commander, sent to Danang to take refugees to Cam Ranh, 300 miles to the south, passengers were shot or pushed overboard by soldiers trying to make room for themselves. Other evacuation vessels, including flat tug-drawn barges, took three days under the scorching sun with neither food nor water to make the Danang-Nha Trang trip. The vessels were so packed with people that most had to stand for the entire journey, except for those who died en route. Six children and two elderly men were taken dead from one barge after it landed...
...Metropolitan Museum's current show, "Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-1974," testifies to his success in that haughty project. When Bacon was first talked of in England 25 years ago, his images of ectoplastic businessmen and screaming Popes, based on such then unlikely-sounding sources as pioneer Cameraman Eadweard Muybridge's serial photographs of human and animal motion, a textbook on radiology, stills from Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein's movies, and an exquisitely colored handbook on diseases of the mouth, were seen as a Guignol of existential dread. Indeed, the scariness of Bacon prevented many people from...
Last week Lincoln Center decided that Szell had been right. Renamed Avery Fisher Hall in September 1973 in recognition of a gift of some $10 million from a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi equipment, the structure will be closed for five months starting in May 1976. Its entire inner auditorium will be demolished and rebuilt. The cost is put, optimistically perhaps, at $3 million. In charge of the renovations will be Acoustician Cyril M. Harris of Columbia University. He was responsible for the excellent sound in the Metropolitan Opera, and tuned the various halls at Washington's Kennedy Center...