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Backed by a quintet that includes his brothers, he begins to play. The style, limned in his characteristic parallel octaves, is mellower, more melodic than before; but every note still throbs with bluesy feeling. The purists start snapping their fingers in spite of themselves, and they join the pop, rock, and rhythm-and-blues fans in applauding...
Robert D. Levin '68, pianist and musicologist, has completed a double concerto movement for piano, violin and orchestra in D Major and the first movement of a quintet for clarinet and strings in B Flat. Both pieces were extant only as incomplete manuscripts before Levin's work...
...concert Saturday at 8:30 p.m., Levin and violinist Mary Harbison will perform the double concerto, and clarinetist Sherman Friedland will take part in the quintet. The program will include other works by Mozart as well...
...BEST ON RECORD (NBC. 9-10 p.m.).* The Grammy Awards show. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' presentation of this year's Grammys for outstanding performances on records. Those participating in the show include Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, the Fifth Dimension, the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, Chet Atkins, Lou Rawls, Liza Minelli, Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin...
BOBBY HUTCHERSON: STICKUP! (Blue Note). West Coast Vibraphonist Hutcherson gets right in the swing with a tasteful crowd of young modernists. Featuring the flexible tenor inventions of Joe Henderson and the thoughtful suspensions of Pianist McCoy Tyner, the quintet favors an ambiance of melodic continuity set to disciplined rhythmics. The finest chapter of their musical book is in Verse, a rubato theme that moves into a flowing waltz tempo. Edging into the avant-garde on 8-4 Beat and Black Circle, the instrumentalists whirl gracefully around some unexpected chords. On the quiet ballad Summer Nights, vibes and piano trace shimmering...