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...good as the echoes from Paris had suggested. He is an amazingly adept virtuoso, and he never lets his virtuosity run away with his musicianship. Instead, he pursues unconventional harmonic flights, exploring the full reach of the keyboard with a fanciful right hand and a strong and steady bass line. In improvisation, his imagination is rich to the point of bursting, and he punctuates his own ideas with ironic mockeries of the pianists he has learned something from-Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Art Tatum...
...giants-a chairman of the Study Program for the World Council of Churches' first two General Assemblies, a major force in the negotiations that fused the Council and the old International Missionary Council in 1961. After office hours, Van Dusen has been a popular, effective preacher-his grainy bass baritone still seems capable of shattering stained glass -and a prolific theological writer: he has edited nine books, contributed to at least 14 others, and the 15th volume in his own uncollected works, The Vindication of Liberal Theology (Scribner's; $3.50), came off the presses last week...
...reasonable interpretations of this load of Franck schmaltz: one can play it through straight-forwardly, or one can indulge in a bit of lingering and slavering. Given my preference for the latter, I found Lubin's performance flat and cold. However, neither preference calls for an overly heavy bass, unclear technical display, a constantly underfed melody, and brusquely punctuated phrases; though Mr. Lubin provided large-scale changes in loudness, he seemed little inclined to modulate within sections of the work...
Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F Minor (Berlin Symphony, St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Karl Forster conducting; Pilar Lorengar, soprano, Christa Ludwig, alto, Josef Traxel, tenor, Walter Berry, bass; Angel) is a majestic work. Forster matches the full voice of his orchestra to the choral glories of the Mass, and only Soprano Lorengar's obvious struggling brings him down to earth again...
...from which hung a small dagger. To ward off evil spirits, Hope pressed her hand into a piece of dough. A pair of holy men conducted her to the chapel, where she was greeted by a fanfare of trumpeting, 10-ft.-long Himalayan horns, braying conch shells, and booming bass drums. Outside the chapel door was the only distinctively American touch in the $60,000 Buddhist rite-a mat on which was written in English, "Good Luck...