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...rather conventional. The piano would state a theme, usually a chestnut like How High the Moon or All the Things You are, and improvise with a few improvisations on its improvisations. A saxophone would take over, add a few ideas of its own, and give it to the bass, or maybe back to the piano. Eventually they would all work back to the bare theme and the piece would end. This method alone is not enough to justify the term experimental. But the group at Adams was definitely experimenting. For one thing M.C. Tom Wilson constantly changed the makeup...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Norman Foster, bass-baritone; Bamberg Symphony conducted by Jascha Horenstein; Vox). These beautiful "songs for dead children," written more than 50 years ago, limn the gloomy sentiments of the discouraged Mahler and the aging splendor of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Boston's Norman Foster does them with a fine, lyrical sense...
...University Band has closed it four week drive for dimes to finance its new bass drum, only $100 short of the $800 needed to pay for the drum...
...pursuit of this ideal, the hi-fi enthusiast still hovers anxiously over his treble and bass controls, giving rise to the story about the audiophile who went to hear a live concert under Leopold Stokowski and left the hall holding his ears and muttering: "Too much bass! Too much bass!" "High-fidelity sound," says one expert, "is like the term love. It means whatever you choose it to mean." Hi-fi is, in fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall...
...insist on buying components separately (the fanciest equipment stores feature elaborate switching panels, so that customers can compare components on the spot). It is next to impossible, the dedicated argue, to buy a real high-fidelity rig in one box-the limited speaker enclosure will probably cause a booming bass or fuzzy drum rolls, and up to half of the price goes for cabinetry instead of equipment. The best buys among the package units-perhaps not as hi as fi should be, but certainly better than most old-fashioned phonographs-sell at around $150. A good custom...