Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wink Leq free 1977 a review Herman band recalls by Lee Schact Eft Dejavu for a lot of the youth of the 1940s who turned All a Little older to Dine and dance to the music of Woody Herman and his saturday night in the Winnipeg convention the music was obviously planned As a nostalgia trip for the majority of the Audi ence of about the few very Young couples ran into an unforeseen they just didst know How to dance to this Type of the Woody Herman music has changed Over the to keep Pace with the i never had a High style band like Glenn so i could develop All the a affable Man of when he plays As he does he uses a whole spectrum of but when he is playing for As he was saturday he is because he has to make sure its his controlled and disciplined in the now is but the beat is still unmistakably smoke gets in your the couples in the 30 age Range managed some touch but they found it a strange and unusual expert everyone else loved a few of the More mature carried away by the bands rhythms and dance were actually Jitter watching them gave a bittersweet glimpse into the the 16piece called the thundering is in the Best group Woody Herman has put to Gether in a Long these Are trained Young Musi average age either graduates of music or plucked out of music schools before you can always go Back to school and but getting a Chance to play a Jig like this Doest come your Way very one player Well keep things Green while you visit the brochure and references on request 7830457 when he broke into some of his Wood choppers Ball and four the audience moved in Masse to the dance the music pulled them Woody Herman plays both Tenor sax and clarinet and is the Only Singer with the his heavy remarkably Strong for a Man his still has the timbre it had years in the mans vitality is this band does one night and its a rough the Young men find it rougher than he be cause Hes conditioned to Herman when he conducts the if you can Call it Herman simply stands and beats time with his hands and the band itself pours out a steady blast of loud enough to rattle the but no one in much of the the dancers gathered around the just to watch the pyrotechnics of the individual Herman gave Over one entire set to virtuoso concert Caledonia and Apple designed to show off the techniques of the when he announced he was going to play Apple a handsome gentleman with a Grey standing beside erupted into a shout of Ive got the original record of that he and As i the evening was a nostalgia but it could Only have brought Back pleasant thoughts because its a Long time since Ive seen such a Large group of Happy so Woody Herman and the thundering a review string quartet performs lip Reading is Only part of the solution sewing machine skipping stitches tensions out Call Singer expert service free pickup and delivery 424 porta8e 9425101 Polo Park shopping Centre 7184003 Garden Cin shopping Centre 33um5 by David Lewis los Angeles times say the word in sitting in a soundproof six by six by seven its floor is raised and car its Walls and ceiling Are covered by acoustical the door is thick and a Small double Glass window separates the cell from an adjoining where a woman technician is beginning to test my hear she sits in darkness with her hands on the lighted control concentrating on the instruments recording this but the voice i hear through earphones clamped Oyer my head is that of a Man a emotionless voice As impersonal As the recorded one that reports the weather for the Telephone say the word wheels spin in my was it can could it be Cam n and m often sound the same to or did he say Ham if the c is soft enough it sometimes goes right by if it is Strong it can sound like a could it have been Tan i have to decide for i must not even appear to be i want to score i want to prove to to the to the faceless voice and to these Devilish instruments that i can almost immediately i say the word an easy one or was there an h in it was it where i say the word for or was the d Only a carryover from the word it was too on the other hand Well i know i should have said but i cant change it the voice the woman switches off the in rises and Digap a deathly then the door to my cell clans and she she takes the earphones from my head and Speaks we can see the dark i stare at what the hell is she talking about dark turn the wheels spin again in my dark of course doctor we can see the now i smile to myself but it int i follow the technician toward the dark turn the Corner beyond which Waits my Oto Logist with the ver dict the operation was not you have a 63 per cent hearing in the left and a 45 per cent loss in the nothing More can be done just let me see you again in six to eight while waiting in the reception room to meet with the hearing id i remembered the doctor i saw 33 years ago who first diagnosed my hearing a gentle he conceal his dismay at what he saw in my Young there was Noth ing that could be done just he said eardrum grafts and transplants of re placement parts were As yet i asked if i should get a hearing but he said things we rent that he it will get he was As i now sadly and someday i wont be Able to hear at like Hap Don we can see the dark it was Hap Donham who taught me the secret of the dark Hap was Stone deaf he hear the sound of his own not since a serious illness during he read cat and hat look exactly he told me Yean so you dont try to see the you try to figure out which one fits in with the Why would anyone he fed the hat you can do the same with words you dont hear whats the other person trying to say its amazing How often youll guess id used this technique when i thought i heard the hearing technician talking about a dark from now on ill need it even i May As Well Start to learn lip but it int As Hap told its speech Reading lips Are Only part of people speak with their their their their entire a speech Reader takes All this you learn a lot about people that Hap throughout the my loss of hearing has made it increasingly difficult for me to continue in which requires group enter three years i plunged into a new career writing to scripts on my but the time will come when i wont be Able to hear the sound if i cant keep ill find other things to maybe ill write a Book about Hap its the least i could do after Hes the one who helping me make it around the dark someones calling a i glance my wait for the hearing id consultant is the receptionist is looking at although i can barely hear her i know she Means and i can make out the words she so faint and far you May go in by Ronald Gibson the University of Manitoba school of music presented the Purcell string quartet in recital sunday afternoon in the Eva Clare three quartets were performed Turner and the most effective playing seemed to be reserved for the Brahms quartet 3 in b this work is not orthodox for some lovers of Brahms but it contains some Beautiful dark hued and the opening a Haynes que movement was finely and its Rich sonority was the an Dante in its song like form was quite and the third movement with its lyrical had an autum Nal mood that was beautifully reflected in the Viola Brahms surprised Many by giving Viola such prominence throughout this and Here we had a movement similar to the third movement of the f major the last movement had such a Kitt Enish that the melodic variants were a source of we were charmed by the Tran Sparany of the 4th variant but the Viola first variation was the quartet in d k499 of Mozart was less sati Facto the music represents a change in style for Mozart following the year he produced we prefer any of the six quartets dedicated to in this the ensemble was Best in the adagio but the Shap ing of that Little haphazard theme opening the final Alle was a bit there was some untidiness in the development of this movement and some of the individual notes of the rapid scale theme were Robert Turners quartet 3 received its first Cana Dian commissioned by the 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