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...also with alto sax, clarinet, bongos and bass? Increasingly, U.S. churches are coming around to the idea that contemporary worship can have a contemporary beat, and jazz in the liturgy, once a way for adventurous pastors to shock their congregations, is now taken seriously as an approach that Christianity can follow in praising the Lord. More important, the jazz being heard in cathedral chancels is no longer amateurish doodling at Dixieland by clerics in their off-hours but scores composed and played by topflight professional musicians who are intrigued by the possibilities of blending their art with the traditional forms...
nothing draws sharks like a chum of blackfish, whale bits and blood. And for all those fishermen who think that sharks are good for nothing, he has one further word of advice: turn the tables on that shark. Eat it. Blue shark, he says, tastes "just like striped bass." And the mako and porbeagle are every bit as good as swordfish. In fact, smiles Mundus wisely, many a housewife has bought shark in her friendly neighborhood fish market at $1.60 a pound-as swordfish...
...appreciated the article on rock 'n' roll because I am the mother of the bass-guitar player with Barry and the Remains. Vernon Miller Jr. is a student of serious music at Boston University, where he is finishing his sophomore year. He is a tuba specialist and is truly a student of good music. However, he is also good at rock 'n' roll. Vernon was only 19 when he came home with his contract from Epic records. His father had to make a very big decision and sign for him. It was pretty difficult. After much...
...other performances that followed, Julius Caesar conquered resoundingly. The old hall was dressed up to look like an opera house, with garlands of flowers ringing the grand tier and an Egyptian-style proscenium jutting out to the apron of the stage. Leading a competent cast of 200, Metropolitan Opera Bass-Baritone Giorgio Tozzi and Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear, making her U.S. opera debut after an admirable, eight-year career in Europe, managed Handel's long, difficult, rapid-fire arias with fine finesse...
...rhythm and blues"?played by Negroes for Negroes. Cured in misery, it was a lonesome, soul-sad music, full of cries and gospel wails, punctuated by a heavy, regular beat. With the migration to the industrial North after World War II, the beat was intensified with electric guitars, bass and drums, and the great blues merchants, like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry, made their first recordings...