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Today and Now (Coleman Hawkins; Impulse) is the best offering yet from Tenorman Hawkins and his brilliant rhythm section-Tommy Flanagan, piano; Major Holley, bass; Eddie Locke, handling the drums...
...little interested in teaching, weary from his long winter, remote from Tanglewood's earnest youthfulness. When Leinsdorf was appointed to succeed Munch last fall, Tanglewood's friends took heart: the 50-year-old Vienna-born conductor seemed just the man. "He has a festival spirit," said Bass Clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, the B.S.O.'s personnel manager. "He has the most extraordinary set of qualities - his time is laid out by an IBM com puter, but he's available to everybody. He could manage General Motors...
...soloists, who were often embarrassing, presented another set of problems. Counter tenor Donald Parsons was the worst detractor, and bass Donald Langmuir, though not prone to missing notes like Parsons, lacked power and richness. Greer McLane, the mezzo soprano, was the best of the trio, if rather uninspired...
...front of a pale green building on Honolulu's Kapiolani Boulevard one day last week, a band of ukuleles and a bass fiddle plunked out a rhythmic island tune. In the midday sun, languid, aloha-shirted islanders meandered back and forth along the sidewalk carrying their signs, pausing now and then for a swig of pineapple juice or to chat with a passerby. The occasion was neither a luau nor a festival, but the visible evidence of the first strike in more than 100 years of Hawaiian newspaper publishing history...
They stare at the bandstand in monkish silence, nodding sagely to the rhythm of drums and bass. Every song is a séance for them, and they listen with every muscle. They are devout, transported, almost catatonic, and when the music stops, there is a little lost moment while their eyes blink and they heave the sigh of the far voyager come home. Then they smile approvingly and say, "Yeah...