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...fingers of the right hand are assigned to violins and flutes, the third and second fingers represent the clarinets and oboes, the thumbs are both French horns. In the left hand, the second and third fingers stand for the cellos and bassoons, while the remaining two fingers provide the bass line...
Phoebe's Charlie was not the legendary saxophonist but a pal nicknamed Harpo. "He had all Harpo Marx's moves down," says Phoebe, "and he played junk instruments like the washtub bass." Charlie introduced her to new music like Spike Jones. Then three years ago, at the age of 20, he died of an overdose...
Rock Nail. If Castaneda was their spiritual mentor, the late Gram Parsons, who was among the first to combine country music with the energy of rock, was their musical inspiration. The Eagles' tunes, performed on three rock guitars paced by a drummer and a bass guitar, have more wail than twang. They are in fact a somewhat unlikely assemblage. Drummer Don Henley, 28, and Guitarists Frey, 26, and Don Felder, 27, have roots in rock. Bernie Leadon, 28, is country-trained, while Randy Meisner, 29, remains partial to Motown blues...
...vibes with Gary Burton, and there's little better recommendation these days than that. Like Burton, Wolfe has a studied, subtle approach to his music, and the vibes provide the perfect vehicle for it. He and bassiat Sturbin have been working on transcriptions of piano music for vibes and bass, an interesting idea at least. Combined with their fine renditions of standards and original work, it promises a good evening Wednesday at Papillon, 1353b Beacon St. in Brookline...
...Trend. The Seattle Ring has a predominantly young cast, with just enough veterans to glue things together. Among them is the stage director, George London, 55, one of the great Wagnerian bass-baritones of the 1950s and '60s. If London has his way, he may start a whole new realistic trend in staging the Ring. After the innovative Wieland Wagner began presenting his grandfather's works as absorbing formal abstractions at Bayreuth in the early 1950s, the imitators began falling into line. Says London: "Soon everyone was in a culdesac, with no place to go. That is when...