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...didn't take it very seriously," he recalls. "Then I really bit into the forbidden fruit and I couldn't tear myself away." From Riga he went to Leningrad, where, like Nureyev, he studied with Ballet Master Alexander Pushkin. At 18, Baryshnikov joined the Kirov as a soloist...
...taken the steady, pervasive beat, and especially electronic instrumentation. In his 1971 album Mwandishi (Swahili for composer), Hancock made his first extensive use of electronic sounds with such instruments or devices as electric bass, electric piano, echoplex and phase shifter. Head Hunters finds him, in addition, employing the Arp Soloist synthesizer (for melody) and the Arp Odyssey synthesizer (melody and color). As if to justify his expenditures, Hancock says: "There is only so much you do with a keyboard...
Heinrich: The Dawning of Music in Kentucky (the American Music Group, Neely Bruce, director and piano soloist; Vanguard, $5.98). In his own time (1781-1861), Anthony Philip Heinrich was considered by his supporters "the Beethoven of America." More recently, Lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky has taken a less adoring stance: "The quality of his works easily accounts for the speedy and complete oblivion of even his name." This first LP of his music suggests that the real Heinrich lies somewhere between Beethoven and oblivion. He was a Bohemian immigrant who, among other things, wrote some grandiose orchestral works and helped found...
...Harvard contingent, however, didn't go it alone. In keeping with the seven day celebration, handyman Everett recruited two of the finest trombone artists playing today: Phil Wilson, trombone teacher at Boston's Berklee College of Music and Woody Herman band soloist in the sixties, and Carl Fontana, one of the best trombonists in the West, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands of the fifties...
...Chuck Mangione's "Klee Impressions," Everett brought on three additional flutes plus an in-vogue soprano saxophone performance by the versatile Sacks. The mellifluous soloist offset some sluggish French horn work, and left a sweet taste in the listeners' mouths during intermission...