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...Lost City Ramblers, a trio of college men, sing a brand of hillbilly known as "Blue Grass." Born in Kentucky, the style calls for a complex string accompaniment-in this case on five-string banjo, fiddle and guitar-and a frenetically fast vocal line unreeled to a foot-slapping accompaniment. The Ramblers learned their best songs-Beware, O Take Care and Hopalong Peter-from such fabled Blue Grass groups as the Buckle-Busters and Dr. Smith's Champion Horse-Hair Pullers...
...Juilliard School of Music. Unabashedly trading on the influence of his father-in-law, Japan's then Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, Watanabe founded the Japan Philharmonic in 1956, staffed it with young Japanese musicians and one American, Concertmaster Broadus Erie, founder of Manhattan's New Music String...
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet (Amati String Quartet; Columbia). Ruth Seeger, who died in 1953, was one of the U.S.'s few women composers to develop a voice of her own. As demonstrated in this early work, it was compounded of boldly skittering rhythms, moderately fiery dissonances and occasional snatches of homely but not folksy melody. The quartet reads her strongly and well...
...Oxford, and hungry for adventure, he set off with a British Red Cross unit for the Balkans, where Turks and Montenegrins were doing their best to exterminate each other. It would be 30 years and several distinctly uncivilized wars later before Gary began to produce that superb string of novels (Mister Johnson, The Horse's Mouth) in which lust for life all but swamps even the prospect of death...
Earlier this year, Tibetan guerrillas became so successful in attacking Chinese truck convoys hauling materials for a string of Red Chinese airbases that in grim desperation the Chinese decided to throw in a regiment of Tibetan troops under Chinese officers. Although the men had been hand-picked and carefully indoctrinated, they promptly murdered their officers and joined the rebels...