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...real star of the show is likely to be Maria Muldaur, who two weeks ago gave a week of Passim's best concerts ever. Her voice lands somewhere in the middle of country, blues, torch music, and folk. A charismatic performer who just started singing solo, Muldaur is unlikely to play second bill to anyone for very long...
Producer Norman Lear of All in the Family became a fan when he saw her singing a torch song called Garbage in an off-Broadway revue. He cast her in several TV sketches in the late '50s, and when he created Maude, Arthur was his first and only choice for the title role...
...1960s the torch was passed from age to youth, but in the 1970s the torch is being handed back again. Youth -the obsession of a few years ago, the hope of some, the fear of others -no longer makes great waves. While the 1969 rock festival at Woodstock was hailed as an epic event of liberated youth, the even bigger 1973 festival at Watkins Glen was considered a casual outing. Between these two festivals youth somehow lost its mystique...
...first non-original since the old Bert Berns days over at Bang Records, the song's basically whimsical nature is belied by a funky, uptempo arrangement right out of Sinatra doing "That's Life." It's the good old uptempo blues: sax solos, blues guitar phrases abound. Morrison torch sings it, bending notes, phrases, whole lines, and finishing with a properly respectful...
...grown and prospered beyond its founders' wildest dreams. Thus on May 7* Israelis will celebrate their nation's 25th anniversary by throwing the biggest bash in its history. The ceremonies will begin at sundown on May 6 at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. There twelve torches will be lighted by surviving heroes of Israel's 1948-49 war of independence. In a separate ceremony. President Ephraim Katzir and the chief of staff, General David Elazar, will light a memorial torch at that holiest of Jewish holy places, the Wailing Wall in Old Jerusalem...