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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNI MUSIC REVIEW SHARON, LOIS BRAM DO YOUR CLOSETS RIGHT! I II 1 I I HJfi tle voice and witty delivery, and the trio becomes the musical equivalent of a perfectly assembled bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. Just the right combination. The trio is celebrating 10 years together and the release of its 10th album, "Happy Birthday," with a tour of 25 U.S. cities. "Welcome to our party," Morrison told the audience.

"We're glad that we invited you, and we're glad you invited us." They paid tribute to Kentucky with two snippets from "My Old Kentucky Home" and the "call to the post" played with the sound of a trumpet on the synthesizer. Their costumed elephant mascot even sashayed onto stage wearing a provocative red skirt and rose behind one ear to dance to a song that By MARTHA ELSON Staff Writer It was a cold, blustery trip into Memorial Auditorium yesterday afternoon for the droves of parents and children who turned out to see the Canadian musical trio of Sharon, Lois Bram. But up on stage, everything turned sunny and cheerful as the Nickelodeon TV stars sang and danced their way through a sold-out performance that blended tuneful, upbeat music of all styles with unusual showmanship. Brightly attired in full-skirted party dresses decked with fabric flowers, Lois Lilienstein and Sharon Hampson had a timeless look and youthful enthusiasm that make them genuinely charming. Add Bram Morrison, with his deep, gen MUSIC REVIEW LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA For the most efficient closets in Louisville ask for closets designed by the experts at the Closet Company! For Your Free Consultation and Superior Design, call 491-3904 YIN 1 CUSTOM STORAGE SPECIALISTS Easter Basket! mfi l1' vOw i 1989 B5 cause Sharon, Lois and Bram are always moving on to something new and different.

The band's musicians, all outfitted in blue sweat shirts, even join in some of the antics, kicking in time to the music from their posts and gamely donning frog masks to leap around stage. What makes their show especially entertaining is that they can take normally innocent songs, such as "Eensy Weensy Spider," and somehow give them the scale and scope of an MGM musical cast number. (In that case, they also put on sunglasses and cranked up the volume to sing about a big fat spider who liked to rock 'n' roll). Elsewhere in the musical lineup were Canadian jigs, jazz and ethnic folk tunes. If they ever get an eensy weensy bit tired of singing about whales who eat "porkchops by the pail" or "fish and chips and vinegar," they never show it harmonics and assertive tone scaled down to a delicate half-voice in the Adagio.

Harvey's partnership did not end with gracious accompaniment. He rendered the tuttis into more than mere bridge sections, not coarsening the brass-band effects and adding a flourish whenever appropriate. If Rosand wanted to suspend momentum for an moment or two, Harvey was immediately responsive. Soloist listened to conductor; conductor listened to soloist: What emerged was a rare collaborative synergy. Rosand took the liberty of playing an unaccompanied encore: the Fugue movement from Bach's Minor violin sonata.

Before the concerto, Harvey conducted Samuel Barber's Symphony No. 1, a piece that unaccountably has never entered the active repertoire. Though the work was composed more than 50 years ago, today it's a curiosity (and was listed as a Louisville premiere). How unfortunate, because the Barber First is a wonderful symphony. It overflows with the brashness of youth, employing a formal design that makes deft use of diminution and augmentation, and is skillfully orchestrated.

The Allegro, Vivace, Andante and Finale movements are presented as a continuous argument, "romantic" in temperament but not an anachronism. Harvey's interpretation emphasized a sweeping, arched scale that forgave a certain amount of rough playing. The trumpets and horns, for instance, did not always sound pristine in attack. Still, the entire orchestra performed boldly. The concert ended with a spirited reading of Mendelssohn's Symphony No.

4 Harvey's taut, virtuoso Saltarello was as fine an account as anyone could wish for. tWYTMARCH 19, 'U ri row lit UK Designing Storage Space Since 1 984 Over 5,000 Designs In Louisville Homes Featured In Louisville Magazine, Courier-Journal, Homerama, Louisville Home Show References In Your Own Neighborhood A Local Reputation You Can Count On! Our Perfect starts: Going to Kentucky Going to the fair To see a seAorita With roses in her hair. Both the pint-sized and adult members of the audience seemed familiar with the trio's songs and shouted out a resounding YES when asked if they had ever watched "Sharon, Lois Bram's Elephant Show" on Nickelodeon. Backed by a first-rate band featuring drums, piano, electric guitar, fiddle, mandolin, clarinet, flute and saxophone, the trio never allows a dull moment to slacken the pace of a show. The show seems expertly choreographed and relaxed at the same time.

There's no time to get restless, be reserve. He adopted tempos moderate enough to keep his passage work clean, and to help ensure reliable intonation. Virtually the entire solo part is ruthlessly exposed, yet even in extreme positions up against the bridge, Rosand stopped right on the center of a note. Few violinists are adept at executing a true Paganini-type slide; Rosand is one of them. Stressing the concerto's sometimes wild chromaticism, he provided a lesson in expressive detail, with each element properly related to the next.

His physical abilities were strong: superb spicatto technique, accurate heard. Each musician got to exhibit his prowess on a particularly captivating cover of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Volunteer Slavery," which culminated in a sizzling percussion solo by Trevor Ferrier. The band established a healthy rapport with the unusually rambunctious audience early in the show, and encouraged everyone to participate in an extremely haunting Oriental piece by making various jungle noises. This was simply a satisfying show. Performances like this are the reason that, sometimes, records just aren't enough.

THE By ANDREW ADLER Staff Critic A remarkable two hours of music making took place Friday night at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. A young, exceptionally gifted guest conductor combined with a veteran, exceptionally gifted soloist in a Louisville Orchestra program that offered great excitement. Raymond Harvey, music director of the Springfield (Mass.) Symphony, displayed prodigious abilities on the Whitney Hall podium. He coaxed robust, committed playing from the Louisville musicians, shap By KRISTIN T. FAUREST Staff Critic A few minutes of Rare Air will quickly disabuse you of the popular notion that all Celtic bands sound alike.

Their Lonesome Pine Special performance Friday night at the Kentucky Center for the Arts proved them to be one of the most interesting and unusual acts to breeze through town this year. Rare Air's roots lie in the Canadian Highland Pipe and Drum tradition, but the group combines Celtic music, funk, African influences and fusion to create a fascinating ethnic and stylistic kaleidoscope. ing interpretations of genuine personality that never veered into indulgent extremes. Joining him was violinist Aaron Rosand, substituting on a few days' notice for an ill Salvatore Accardo in the Paganini Concerto No. 1.

Their partnership was felicitous. The Major concerto may be a warhorse, but Friday it sounded like a fresh addition to the repertoire. Instead of simply hewing to its expected course of pyrotechnics, the piece evolved into a absorbing look at an almost forgotten style. Rosand, in fact, approached the music with an admirable degree of MUSIC REVIEW RARE AIR And the band performs amazing feats with that most-maligned of musical instruments, the bagpipes. Each of the four musicians represents a specific artistic influence, and each of Rare Air's compositions reflects this eclecticism.

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