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...Alley octopus called Aldon Music Inc., which has 35 boys and girls busy night and day composing songs. Last year Aldon turned out 300 numbers that were eventually immortalized on records, most of them strongly teen feel. "After four years," says Vice President Emil La Viola, "we've achieved an Aldon feel, a groove that's fresh and easy, a personal feel. The songs are simple, and mostly they have a negative message." Writers who have the Aldon feel down pat can make $50,000 a year, tossing off 60 or so songs and counting on three...
...18th century baroque organ to 20th century ears. Von Karajan's basic ensemble consists of three organs, fitted out with 6-ft.-high wood and metal pipes, and Wolfgang plays one of them himself. When necessary, Wolfgang and his associates are joined by flutists, oboists, violinists and viola players who trail behind the furniture van in a chauffeur-driven station wagon. Wandering from town to town, playing for anybody, the group has worked its way through the sonatas, preludes and choir introductions of J. S. Bach, all the organ music ever written by Mozart, the works of Handel...
...performance succeeded--superbly--in taking the listener thorugh this variety of situations. Judith Davidoff, cello, Tison Street, violin, and William Hibbard, viola, performed brilliantly the savage bowing Schoenberg demands and made no attempt to give the piece an artificial form. They did not have any trouble with the important harmonies and their coordination was good...
...girl physiotherapist," "former Harvard lecturer turned tycoon in ladies' underwear.'' Frequently, Brooks offers an acid explanation of the owner's reasons for selling: "One of the big pots in chamber music, leader of a famous quartet, taking up suburban residence with former girl viola pupil, sacrifices exciting newly built mews residence...
...opened the fairy tales. In the "Viennese Musical Clock," the percussion section went admirably wild; but the music beneath, no matter how heavily sugarcoated, tasted stale. The third movement, "Song," and the dance in the fifth, however, showed the better side of Kodaly's talents; in the third, the viola (Jean Quillen) played a delicate folk melody to a harpsichord accompaniment. The orchestra handled its end of the music superbly. Swoboda again put on a show, and the audience loved...