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...reworking music for other instruments. "The composer has to work through me," he said. Indefatigable, he practiced five hours a day and even in his 90s was still playing up to 60 concerts a year around the world. He was also a tireless teacher whose students included Julian Bream. This, in fact, may prove to be his most enduring legacy; once scorned by academia, classical-guitar study is now offered by some 1,600 schools of music in the U.S. "Segovia's guitar does not sound loud," Composer Igor Stravinsky once observed, "but it sounds...
Boston University Celebrity Series--Julian Bream and John Williams at Symphony Hall, Boston...
...major reorganization announced last week, Hurok Concerts worked out a deal with a smaller, rival manager, Harold Shaw, 53, and gave him most of its artistic leadership. Shaw will continue to run his own company, Shaw Concerts, which handles such artists as Guitarist Julian Bream, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. A merger may be possible in the future, but for now the move is comparable to Ford turning operations over to American Motors...
...recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys of the new Shaw-Hurok liaison, said Shaw last week, is that now Guitarist Bream and Mezzo Baker can give joint recitals in the U.S., as they have in England. One of the things wrong with the business-most music managers being as single-minded as Charlie Finley-is that Bream and Baker could not do that before...
...host attacked the problem with typical verve: he and his younger brother Billy and son Chip, 26, partially drained the pond, plunged in as deep as their shoulders and netted the fat catfish, bass and bream that were swimming around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...