Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stellvertreter, a title that has been translated as The Representative or The Deputy, hut is perhaps best rendered as The Vicar-in echo of the title Vicar of Christ on Earth, which is one of the official designations of Roman Catholic Popes. The first play of Germany's Rolf Hochhuth, 32, it ran for five months last season in West Berlin's Free People's Theater, is now showing in Stockholm, Basel and at London's Royal Shakespeare Theater...
...Rolf Cahn has arrived in Cambridge on his yearly pilgrimage reviving old arguments about all aspects of his music. Is he a good blues singer? is he a competent flamenco guitarist? is his guitar playing too mechanical...
...Cahn's music is just half the story of Rolf Cahn the person. He was in Berkeley when Odetta was learning to play the guitar; he was in Los Angeles and Chicago when the folk music movements there were in their infancy; and he has influenced more than any other single person the music being played and sung in the coffee houses of Boston and Cambridge...
Barbara Dane is one of the many important folk singers whose music bears the stamp of an encounter with Rolf Cahn. Jackie Washington, Debbie Green, Odetta, Jim Kweskin, Tom Rush, Molly Scott and countless others both famous and obscure have also been influenced directly by Cahn and his music...
...jazz musician than a folk musician. Cahn sings everything with a German-Jewish accent which alienates many purists. But those who judge him in comparison with Eric Von Schmidt, Jack Elliott or Sabicas (depending on which type of music Cahn happens to be playing) miss the point of Rolf Cahn. To borrow a phrase, he's in his own bag, but that bag doesn't keep Cahn from being one of the most exciting performers in folk music...