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FOCUS (Stan Getz; Verve). For reasons obscure, jazz musicians these days have a yen to go classical. This latest attempted fusion of longhair and brushcut involves seven pieces for string ensemble by Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter against which Saxophonist Getz pins his softly twining improvisations. The string pieces are in fact little more than an assortment of film-style clichés, but Getz's solos-soaring, tumbling and melting-are worth the price of the album...
Your cover portrait of industrialist Matsushita [Feb. 23] prompts me to ask: Has he ever been known to smile-for instance, when he is counting his yummy yummy yen...
...self-effacing look of an elderly, underpaid schoolteacher. In fact, he is a daring manufacturing and merchandising genius who, starting out at nine as an errand boy, has built Japan's biggest appliance business from nothing. Matsushita's success has made him Japan's biggest yen billionaire; last year his personal income hit $916,000, and for five out of six years he has been Japan's ''King of Taxpayers." But Japan's prosperity does not delight Matsushita merely because it fills his coffers. His hero is Henry Ford - the man who brought...
Violinist Stern soon developed a scholar's yen for analyzing music and a distaste for studying technique (although an interest in the problems of bowing once led him to study the anatomy of hand and arm and their motor controls). The son of a house painter, Stern made his Manhattan debut at 17 ("I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart"), but had to wait seven more years before he was able to start a successful concert career. Now an almost compulsive concertizer, he is rarely in his Manhattan duplex, averages a brain-fogging 125 concerts and recitals...
...criticizing the Sherman Anti-Trust laws. They are "unintelligible laws the businessman can't help breaking," and their only meaning is the "penalizing of ability for being ability." They are a "constant threat of disaster," putting the businessman at the "mercy of any young bureaucrat," who has a "yen to do some trustbusting...