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...Mulligan was great. Still using no piano, counting on drums and a bass to carry the rhythm, he skillfully traded melodic lines in fluid counterpoint with valve trombonist Bobby Brookmeyer. They played all the old Mulligan numbers--Motel, Lullaby of the Leaves, Sextet, My Funny Valentine--old because in only three years they have made their arranger famous for his style. The Mulligan sound is a low sound, a tense sound. Unlike Dixieland, it reaches no climaxes, and explodes in no blasting solos. Instead, it edges back and forth, finds harmony for a few lines, then slips off into exciting...
...music of Oedipus Rex. Nevertheless, it provides varied and often quite beautiful settings of the six love poems; however similar their techniques, Lamb is far more willing than Stravinsky to make melodic concessions to his listeners. The New Art Quintet of New York played the wind parts flawlessly, and bass-baritone Paul Matthen sang difficult vocal lines with assurance and tonal beauty...
...godawful." Since few players know the original music, they must resort to improvising. This is especially difficult since, according to the terms of the gift, the bells must be played in the Russian manner. When the monks rang them, they kept the largest bell swinging continually, its deep bass forming a background for the rest of the weird chorus. Operators claim that once the big bell get going, they are unable to hear anything else...
...assuming that the artist intended the music to be in the bass clef, and he should have marked the key signature...
This kind of fare is varied with pure farce. In "The Woman in the Case," a double-bass player and an aristocratic beauty get acquainted after both have gone swimming and have had their clothes stolen. Chekhov's Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise...