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...appreciated the article on rock 'n' roll because I am the mother of the bass-guitar player with Barry and the Remains. Vernon Miller Jr. is a student of serious music at Boston University, where he is finishing his sophomore year. He is a tuba specialist and is truly a student of good music. However, he is also good at rock 'n' roll. Vernon was only 19 when he came home with his contract from Epic records. His father had to make a very big decision and sign for him. It was pretty difficult. After much...
...other people's work, though he has written several hundred pieces, among the better known being Gate Mouth Blues, Brother Bill and Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Hackett proves to have a real feeling for the Armstrong style, and his cornet solos, backed by authentic-sounding tuba, saxophone, banjo, trombone, piano and drums, are incisive and bouncy. Pick of the lot: Someday You'll Be Sorry, with Hackett's cornet and Sonny Russo's trombone taking turns playing obbligato to each other...
...itself as an outlet for new and experimental plays in repertory. Later this month, they have an item called Victor, or The Children Take Over, by French Playwright Roger Vitrac. The plot calls for a woman to make flatus with noisy regularity, which is accomplished with a backstage tuba...
...middle-aged couples, flushed of face and strong of voice, swinging down memory lane, with a stop now and then for a swig and some peanuts. The band is properly twangy, the repertory-On, Wisconsin!, "Hold That Tiger," "Roll Out the Barrel"-the sort that only a trombone, a tuba, a washboard and a couple of banjos can get away with...
Music 1 and Music 124 run roughly parallel courses over the history of music at slightly different levels of rigor. The activities of Music 253 ("Tubby and Tuba") stand explained in Anthro. 103a, "Primate Social Behavior." And for those weary of this animal hedonism, there are the ascetic pleasures of Math. 272a, discussing "CW complexes, homology, cohomology, homotopy...