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...these three pieces were jazz, they would be called "far out," for German-born, U.S.-naturalized Composer Wolpe. 52, has hewed his way to extremes of modernity. Passacaglia (played by David Tudor) was written in the early '30s, is as dissonant and involved as the more recent Violin Sonata (with Frances Magnes and Tudor). Composer Wolpe has taught jazz musicians, and his Quartet for Trumpet (Bob Nagel), Tenor Sax (Al Cohn), Piano (Jack Maxin) and Percussion (Al Howard) has, a barely recognizable jazz flavor. Performances: superb...
...babies to get publicity; every legislative message, highway dedication, school visit, or pardon for Killer Slazem is framed to make the governor appear benevolent and unselfish. The governor's access to publicity has allowed Dewey to use the Executive Mansion in Albany as a sounding board for the Eisenhower violin. It will soon reverberate a sweet, Democratic refrain...
...than the Handel D Minor Concerto Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...
...every minute that the keyboard was free picking out pieces of his own. He tried harder to please his father (who gave him four cows when he was eight and called Dave his "partner"); later he learned to rope, brand and vaccinate cattle. Eyeing his older brothers practicing their violin and piano, Dave protested against his own music lessons: "Ma, you've got two musicians; I want to be a cattleman...
Earlier, a good deal of confusion arose when University police at Claverly interpreted the term "instrument" as meaning a musical instrument, and announced that the only instrument in the room was a violin...