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...same spirituals and rags and blues they've played for a halfcentury and throw in a "Hello Dolly" so that everyone hears a song he knows. Their playing sounds like the earliest jazz records, though you can hear more than the blended brass screech and the knock of the woodblock that were often all that acoustical recording could capture...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Jazz Preserved | 3/15/1973 | See Source »

DeDe Pierce's trumpet leads the touring group, which takes its impulsive rhythm from Billie Pierce's constant piano figures and from the steady drumming provided by Cie Frazier on snare, cymbals, bass and woodblock. The music emphasizes collective improvisation, with Willie Humphrey harmonizing the upper voice on the clarinet and Big Jim Robinson filling in on trombone below, with the lowest harmony coming from Allan Jaffe--who runs Preservation Hall and manages the group--on bass horn. The earliest groups has other instruments, like banjo or string bass, and these can be heard on the groups' two most recent...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Jazz Preserved | 3/15/1973 | See Source »

Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore, who presided at the aboriginal liturgy before a crowd of 20,000 in Melbourne's Myer Music Bowl, wore a long chasuble decorated with a woodblock print of an aboriginal tribal totem. Before the consecration of bread and wine, the cardinal prayed: "Father, you made the rivers that gave us water and fish. You made the mountains and the flat country. You made the kangaroos and goannas and birds for us. You send the sun to keep us warm, the rain to make the grass grow and to fill the waterholes." The congregation responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Olympics in Melbourne | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...single artistic statement of distinction is not the work of a university undergraduate. Heidi Pape, a Smith graduate and a student of Leonard Baskin's, contributed a large woodblock print and a small abstract graphic print. In the woodblock, a female figure inclined upon a table in the foreground gazes backwards towards a checkerboard avenue overhung with intertwined branches of menacing black trees. Entitled "Playroom," it suggests mystery and romance, foreboding and longing. Especially admirable for its command of intent, the print is reminiscent, in the swift and clawing strokes winding around the woman's body, of certain German expressionists...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Student Art H-R Art Forum through May 2 at the Fogg | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

JAPAN proudly presents its modern technological miracle, but never omits the ancient arts that grace its culture: flower arranging, woodblock printing, the tea ceremony. Top Sculptor Masayuki Nagare created the powerful stone wall that beautifies the pavilion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Aug. 14, 1964 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

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