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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIFE (A & M). Long a top jazz guitarist, Montgomery acquired new status and a wider audience with his first jazz-pop success, California Dreaming. Once more, with arrangements by . Don Sebesky, Wes has toned down his improvisations and tuned up a fleet of strings to accompany his standard rhythm section of piano, bass and drums. The result is a polished, gently swinging kind of music with a particularly polite but still identifiable Montgomery guitar...
...self-puffery. Not so. Alioto has come across like John Lindsay, Western style. Right off the bat he raised the hopes of the city's minorities. After his inauguration at the glittering San Francisco Opera House in January, Alioto scheduled receptions in the predominantly Negro Hunters Point-Bayview section and the Mission District (Mexican-Americans, Filipinos, American Indians). Humming operatic airs, sipping Campari and soda or playing the violin, he wowed the crowds. "The ghetto never goes to the Opera House," he said, "so we'll take the inaugural to the ghetto...
...musical intentions of the first half of the program were set aside during intermission. The orchestra assembled on the stage with fewer strings than usual, with a mammoth tuba lurking at the rear of the brass section, and with several megatons of percussion prominently displayed. This artillery was lined up to attack Orff's Carmina Burana, at best a second rate piece of music but unfailingly successful as a spectacle...
...provided hearty support with accurate playing from the strings, fine solos by flute and bassoon, and a frenetic percussion section. And when victory was clearly in sight, the enthusiastic woodwinds put down their instruments and joined in singing the crashing finale...
...Kennedy forces under the leadership of former Lieutenant Governor Phillip Sorensen, brother of Kennedy advisor Theodore Sorensen, gathered in Lincoln today to hold secret strategy meetings. In the selection of delegates to the national convention--which is, like New Hampshire, separate from the Presidential preference section on the primary ballot--the Kennedy forces are at a disadvantage. There are only two names on the ballot pledged to Kennedy out of the 28 delegates to be elected...