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...Church-sponsored recital series began two weeks ago with organist Anton Heiller. On November 17 the series continues with Edward Tarr, considered by many the world's best baroque trumpet player. Keyboard music is accessible weekly at the Harvard Organ Society's popular Thursday noon recitals in the Busch-Reisinger. The museum's beautiful three-manual Flentrop organ is perfect for baroque music--and the short recitals are a welcome respite on a busy...
...blue suit with short pants, his long-sleeved shirt and long white socks, nine-year-old Enrico Tomasso looks like Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he picks up his trumpet, the youngster from Leeds, England, sounds like Louis Armstrong. What he plays is mostly Louis: When It's Sleepy Time Down South, When the Saints Go Marching In. And at the Manhattan nightclub where he has been appearing, customers respond with rare enthusiasm to his strong, clean horn tones. Just in case anyone misses the point, Enrico rolls his eyes occasionally like Satchmo and even pulls out a white handkerchief...
...Tomasso, an experienced clarinetist, started the boy on the piano. "He could play flattened ninth chords before he even knew what they were," says the proud father. A year later Enrico heard Satchmo on records and that was the end of the piano. Recalls Enrico: "Dad bought me a trumpet. Then he brought in a teacher. Most people think you blow ordinary when you blow a trumpet. You don't. You have to put your lips together and make a sound like bluebottle flies buzzing on the window." Breath control exercises came next-"lying on me back with...
...Nixon's display of Olympian unconcern a wise course? To some, it seemed that the President was once again showing an unwillingness to follow through on major decisions. Through his presidency, they argued, Nixon has sounded the trumpet on one program after another?welfare reform, the governmental reorganization of his "New American Revolution," revenue sharing?and then lost interest in making them work. To engineer a turnaround of the U.S. economy, his critics charge, Nixon must forsake the security of the television screen and reassure doubters in person...
...through the red ink. Editor-Publisher Lloyd Wendt, 63, who directed Today's transformation into a tabloid in 1969, is convinced that sluggish ad revenues will strengthen rapidly now that his paper has taken the afternoon circulation lead. Chicagoans' ears are numb from repetitive radio spots that trumpet: "Chicago Today! Writing worth reading ... and repeating...