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THE CINCINNATI ENQUtBER 'Sunday, Pec. I 17 F-5 rn Daniels A Unique Breed succeeded In the face of critical chagrin because It was absolute corn. There was no sacrilegious material on It, no digs at prominent people, or anything like that II Forging Ahead, Horn In Hand BY JACK HURST nn. Tha Chicago Tribute Classifying the music of big Charlie Daniels, who won three Country Music Association (CMA) awards In October. Isn't easy.

Country-rock prob-ably comes closest, but Daniels' brand doesnt sound like anybody else's. Which Is fine with the earthy, outspoken Daniels. -Something I have never been able to understand Is why people want to sound like each other," he says. "You're In this business to do something you want to do. I don't see no reason to go along with the crowd all the time." And Daniels doesnt On his current Million Mile ReftecUons Epic), he follows a song celebrating Mississippi with one about a black man blinded by the Ku Klux Klan.

Daniels says this odd coupling of songs has no deep meaning that. In fact, he wrote Mississippi from a melody the four-syllable state name Just happened to fit. "I eoulda made It Cincinnati," he says. "Except they ain't no Spanish moss hangin' from no live oak trees In Cincinnati." ALBUM REVIEW of the Week: Donna Fargo's first LP In a year, Just for You (Warner Bros Is one of her best, a sensitively produced collection of varied material that projects more of an adult tone than the girlish Fargo of "Happiest Otrl In the U.8.A." There are two hit singles here-the gospel-lsh "Preacher Berry" and the 12-year-old "Daddy." both written by Fargo-and three prospective ones: the skillfully re-arranged country oldie "Walk On By," the crossover-styled "Let's Try to Fall In Love Again." and the hot, B-Influenced "Cant Do the Lovln (Without the Love). There Is also another nice Fargo original called "The Utah Song." After that, the material thins a little, but all Is pleasingly sung.

Fargo seems to have matured her viewpoint without sacrificing her disarming Innocence. Jx CHARLIE DANIELS: Rennet to copy someone elte's sounds 1 -m- ON THE Record: Dolly Parton and her managers have founded a new label on which to release her records. It's called White Diamond, and will be affiliated with RCA. for which she has recorded for many years Comedian Oeorge Burns. 82.

recently visited Nashville to record two country songs: Sonny Throckmorton's "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" and Tom T. Hall's "Mysteries of Life" Song TlUe of the Week: "You're Oonna Love Youself in the Morning," by D. Frltts. I a comedy to 1 tWI cheer about jit Just excellent? 1 KMTTVrMntaM 1 I l-i AND ifCT JUSTICE iv iV ftmm. FUNNY.

PASSKKUTL A HUMOMUS. ROMANTIC. CisV. iMPimiiTfnirTAwii: -V iV "TIUS TOO TO STAT OUT Of COUfTi i'l'fKJI rV DONT TMftOW AMfAT TOUR TRAff IC km Prs 1Kmt' jj I tttUmMtOHtiwy- -tw iast rmn wireimi aw BARRY TUCKWELL; Without French horn in hand. CONWAY WITTY, one of the worlds better-known baseball fans, became the host of a Women's Professional Bowling Association (WPBA) tournament In Nashville (to be covered live by CBS Sports Spectacular Saturday) after some demographic studies.

It appears. A spokesman for Twltty's Nashville talent agency explains: "The WPBA feels the country music audience Is largely a bowling audience. The WPBA estimates there are 65 million bowlers In the United Slates." BY NANCY MAUTZ Chmv Mutic Critic AcUeon. the hunter, nu one of the many characters In Greek mythology who led a leu than charmed life. He supposed to have encountered the goddess Artemis quite by chance; he approached a pool In the woods and found her bathing there, The goddess, offended at this affront, took swift revenge on the unfortunate mortal; she transformed the hunter Into the very animal Actaeon's dogs were trained to kill a wild stag.

And that was the end of AcUeon. "It's not a nice story," admitted the world's most famous hornlst, Barry Tuck well, who will play the American premiere of Richard Rodney Bennett's "AcUeon" for horn and orchestra Friday and Saturday with the Cincinnati Symphony, Walter Sussklnd conducting. But It is a story rich In the imagery of the hunt And the excitement of the hunt Is a perfect musical subject for the French horn. Tuck well described "AcUeon" as "a very exciting and rather frightening piece." But those who wait for the music to retell Actaeon's bloody story will still be waiting when the music is through. "It's a tone poem," explained Tuck well.

"It deals with hunting themes, the kind of music a horn can do very well. -But It doesnt trace the story. It simply puu Into sound a dramatic sum of affairs." TITKWELL'S own story Is a legend of sorts. He Is quiet and understated In manner, but he reigns as the dazzling hero of the horn. Most people think of the horn as an orchestral Instrument, but Tuckwell has given the Instrument a vlrtuos-Ic.

and definitely soloistic, reputa-tion. He began working as a musician In his native Australia at 13. His first Job wk with the Sydney Symphony, which wss conducted by former Cincinnati Symphony director Fugene Ooosens. In 1950 he left for England to develop his skill as a virtuoso by studying with Dennis Brain, the greatest British horn player of the day. He played solo horn with the London Symphony for 13 years, then left to pursue a solo career.

Tuckwell credits much to Brain's Influence, but he also feels a debt to the trombone playing of Tommy Dorsey, whose recordings were always on the phonograph. Brain may have taught Tuckwell technique, but It was Dorsey who Uught him how to spin a melody, according to Tuckwell. Ft auwirnwigiiiciTawitiigi If JL Sfcim BV3T KSYMCiCS fmitimium: MARTIN gttSffi wmmmtirm -nU 1 I LXJ ON THE Road: Jethro Burns, the great Jass mandollntst who found fame as half the comedy team of Homer and Jethro, recently videotaped his first appearance on "Hee Haw." On It, he and co-host Roy Clark did some Instrumental work together on "After You've Oone and Stumbling" ROSANNE CASH. Johnny Cash's daughter by his first wife and now a rising country star, lived with her mother In California during the teenage years in which she acquired her first musical tastes. "I was a product of the ttts," she says.

"I listened to the Beatles, Jonl Mitchell, Ray Charles, Buffalo Springfield, and also what my mother was listening to: Marty Robblns and Ray Price. And I listened to my dad a lot. His Bailed of the True West (Columbia) was my favorite album." MANY ORCHESTRAS have principal horn players who are aspiring soloists themselves. Do they feel Tuckwell steals opportunities from them? "Oh sure, there are always some players who feel they should get the charts. "But I dont really feel I'm treading on many toes," said Tuckwell.

"People enjoy the Idea of an unusual solo Instrument so much that they're likely to repeat the Idea the next year. "So perhaps I'm actually creat-Ing opportunity, not taking It The horn solo repertoire Is fair sized. "There are about 20 good concert pieces to choose from," said Tuckwell. But like most Instrumentalists, he Is always looking for that great new work to play. HE FIRST performed Bennett's "AcUeon" at a Proms concert In London, 1877.

Tuckwell commissioned the piece. And he likes It, because It makes use of try horn's special characteristics. Not all contemporary works do that. But despite Tuckwell's missionary seal with regard to the music, "AcUeon" has teetered dangerously at oblivion's edge for two years. Why? Everybody wants to do a premiere, according to Tuckwell.

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