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...scruggs." This technique, which moved one astigmatic observer to compare Scruggs's achievement on the banjo to Paganini's on the violin, involves a clawlike motion with thumb and two fingers that serves to transform the banjo player from a plunk-plunking accompanist into a virtuoso soloist. Nobody has heard anything to equal it, says one folk expert, since the glorious days of Fisher Hendley and his Aristocratic Pigs, famed hillbillies of the early...
...Castle Hill Foundation presents a full schedule of varied musical concerts this summer. The Concerts are on Argilla Road in Ispwich (EL 6-4351 in Ipswich). The Ahmad Jamal Trio Opens the season June 30 through July 1. Then Earl Wild, piano soloist, and Arthur Fielder, with a symphony group (July 7-8); a Weekend of Jazz with Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Duke Ellington and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (July 14-15); Ferrente & Teicher, duo-paints, (July 21-22); a Weekend of Folk Music with Odetta and Pete Seeger, and The Weavers and John White (July...
...there, or because they like the preacher-all too few care passionately about doctrinal differences between the limestone church with stained glass, the spired white clapboard and the Georgian brick. Typical is a Hollywood man whose parents were Lutherans and then Methodists; he became a Presbyterian "because the bass soloist's position was open...
...group deserves praise just for attempting such a giant as Mahler, not to mention negotiating his complexities with competence. For Mahler makes incredible technical demands: every instrument must be a soloist; the conductor must dovetail many scattered parts; and a solo voice must blend evenly with the ever swelling and falling background. The simplicity and brevity of these five last Rueckert songs make the job no less difficult. Their exposed, masterful orchestration fairly invites misfortune...
...staggering round of guest appearances. When he accompanied the Ballet Theater to Russia last year, he was so applauded (one critic called him "the greatest male dancer to perform in the Soviet Union in the past 25 years") that the Bolshoi Ballet has invited him as a guest soloist for six months, starting next fall...