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...QUESTION the value of such mimicry--might it not have been just as good and less pretentious to have actually used a piano, bells, etc. instead of reproducing them by guitar? The answer is of course that the electric guitar is to rock-blues music what the violin is to classical music--the supreme voice of the medium...
...Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals among his friends, and has helped to arrange the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In a jest that his enemies might not recognize, he has sometimes introduced himself at White House functions as "Abe Fortas?I am a violinist." His Italian Guidantus violin may be his proudest possession...
...there is a fourth. In the hands of Los Angeles-born Gary Karr, 26, the bass sings instead of croaks, and it sings with all the richness of the cello, the warmth of the viola and the agility of the violin. Yet Karr is not content simply to be the master of a narrow field. He wants to broaden the field-by revamping the technique of bass playing and bringing the instrument into its own as a solo voice. "My intention is to start revolutions," he says. "Most bass music doesn't demand very much, and most bass players...
...Violin Drawback. Fortas' move did not mean any loss of influence with the President. Johnson has continued to consult him almost daily on everything from speeches to major policy decisions. And Fortas' lawyer wife Carolyn (they have no children) is also a Johnson favorite. Though many of his votes presumably would meet with presidential approval, no one would seriously suggest that Fortas is anything but his own man. Before joining the court, he had a long and distinguished record as a civil libertarian and a defender of State Department employees during the McCarthy era. He argued an insanity...
...Psych. Smashing a violin over the head of an onlooker, on the other hand, is an altogether different order of violence-purposeless instead of purposeful. But violin smashing is just what occurred during the current series of events at Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church staged by a group of self-styled "destruction artists." Among the crowd-pleasers: Vienna's Hermann Nitsch, who stuffed his trousers with calves' brains, then dragged the bloody carcass of a lamb around the courtyard. Artist Ralph Ortiz and Judson Gallery Director Jon Hendricks had planned to tear limb from limb two live...