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THE HAM IV Hit Mn i i i I 6 If 1 Iv ftii'l uuititrUt nnd frk hhn to "I'm not a showman," Don admits, "I've alw.iye pUyed in the But ha wnulij respond with a medley of Hank's song. is. i a Bill Id! 3 II II -k The Way Was Long, Tough, But They Stuck To It CARPETING DRAPERIES htt Dtcoruinr Strvtce wocDBntonfiPEnv 1 I M1IIIK il.li.,. i 520 W. ThompMft AL 4-721 ers, who lived arrofa the street from him.

This association eventually led him Into the business end (also called the money-making end) of the music business. He is now a partner with the Wllburns and general manager of the Wll-Helm Agency and Sure-Fire Music Publishing Co. Because of this, his playing In recent years has mainly been limited to tours with the Wil-burns. On these tours, Doyle Wilburn would often introduce SHEET METAL WORK Ttltphona AL 5-6601 110 CHUUCH Hi iITThi -ejjftTM W' 11 -a I By PAT ANDERSON NASHVILLE'S music world contains an endless number of interesting people who are doing interesting things. This week we'll look at two of them, songwriter Fred Burch and steel guitarist Don Helms.

In 1958, KrM nurch, then a senior at the University of Kentucky, was sitting in an EnKllnh class on Aristotelian trnRP.dy. He and a friend, Gerald Nelson, had recently started dabbling In sonicwriUnpr, and Fred began scribbling thcae words: Wind and storm Cone's the sun Run the stars My dark has come You'Ve gone from me, Oh Oh. Tragedy. These rather poetic Ilnra were something different In the popular song field and "Tragedy" became a smash hit. Thomas Waynn re i mfrT- til THIS FURNITURE COLLECTION FROM AMERICA'S LEADING FURNITURE nFSiHNFRS and CRAFTSMEN which was recorded by Bill Phillips and Is climbing up the country charts.

Steel guitarist Don Helms recently recorded an album that had Its beginnings In 1941. During that year Don, aged 14, met a skinny country singer named Hank Williams, sged 18. Hank was singing on radio and playing shows in Montgomery, Ala. He needed a hand, and Don player' In a band so they got together. Aside from World War II and a few other interruptions, Don played steel guitar with Hank from then until Hank's death in 19S3.

Don was waiting in a Dayton, Ohio, theater, to play a show with Hank when he learned of Hank's death on Jan. 1, 1953. The album, due for release around the first of the year, is to be called "Songs I Played With Hank Williams." It contains such Williams classics as "Cold Cold Heart," "Jambalava," "Your Cheatln' Heart," "You Win Again," and "Kaw-LIga." Aside from a vocal quartet which hums and alnps an occasional phrase, the album Is Don's attempt to capture the musical soul of the Williams songs. He makes no attempt to give new, Individualized Interpretations of the songs. Instead, Don tries to play them just as he played them with Hank, on the Opry, on the road, and on recordings.

"I tried to play Hank's songs that people who know them can almost hear the lyrics," Don explained this week. New Team After Hank's death, Don and the other "Drifting Cowboys" played with Ray Price and Fer-lln Husky before they finally disbanded. Later, Don started playing with the Wilburn Broth All 1aL: Such as ALONZI KARPEN WHITE KENT C0FFEI HICKORY. BROYHILl CLYDE PEARSON FURNITURE CITY CENTURY KINGSLEY lASSETT AMERICAN FURNITURE i NOVELTY UNITED Pit Visit our Showroom soon I You are olwoyi welcome) to com In ond brows of your leliure Open Monday ond Friday nights until 9i00 P.M. corded It In a MemnJiis rh rafie in a session that cost total of $15 (the bass player demanded money; everyone else worked for free).

The record eventually raked In some $279,000. Man, thought Fred as the Don Helms A tribute to Hank at the muslo world In Hollywood, but like most Southerners he didn't care for the life there. During his stay In Hollywood once attended a party at Elvis Presley's home and had the distinction of losing his date to his better.known host. After Hollywood came Nashville and Fred Is now a staff writer for Cedarwood Publishing still searching for that second million-seller. He hasn't found it yet.

but he has had songs recorded here by Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Smith, Bonnie Guitar and others, and most recently has a tune called "The Outsider" Fred Burch Forward from "Tragedy" Fred stopped In Memphis briefly before heading for Mexico, where he spent four happy months In a tiny fishing village called Puerto Vcllarta. There he fished and tried to master guitar-playing. He has a wonderful Ftory about the time he and a hitchhiker tried to smuggle a puppy and a screeching parrot past the guards at the Texas-Mexico border. Fred turned his car radio up to full volume and kept his motor racing in hopes that the guards wouldn't hear the parrot howling from his hiding place under the car, but their smuggling failed miserably. Mexico was followed by a try tom FIRXITURE Violinist Here Soon By LOUIS NICHOLAS 'rilli NASHVILLE Sym-A phony orchestra hosting Zino Francescatti as jruest soloist, and Fisk University bringing tenor Leopold Simoncau to its concert aeries give notable musical distinction to this week.

Willis Pag, directt the Naifv villi Symphony's second pair of concerts, Monday and Tuesday vepings, at War Memorial audi, torium, at 8:30, with a program comprising Berlioz' Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini," the Sibelius Violin Concerto, and Brahms' Symphony No, 4 In minor. Francescatti, one of the world's finest violinists, made Ms American debut with the New York Philharmonic In 1039, and-ton years later was soloist wltli the Nashville Symphony In Its -third season, playing the Chausson "Poeme" and Saint-fiaens' "Introduction and Rondo Capriccloso." Between these dates, he had given a recital for Community Concerts here (1M1-42 season). He has toured In this country every year since 1939, and makes his tiome at "Flddletop" In the Berkshlres. He has more than ftO solo appearances with the N.Y, Philharmonic to his credit, as well as more than 60 appearances with the Philadelphia orchestra, and more than 50 appearances on the Bell Telephone Hour. Father Taught His father was his first teacher, and a pupil of Rlvorl, Paga-nlnl's only pupil, so It was fitting that the start of this brilliant career In this country should have been with the Paganlnl major Concerto, with which Francescatti has ever since been Identified.

On the occasion of the great Paganinl Columbus celebration In Genoa, Paganini's Stradivarius was taken from its museum esse, and played by Francescatti In a broadcast program the first time It had been played In more than 100 years. Francescatti himself owns the "Hart" Stradivarius of 1727. The Sibelius Concerto, played here last In 1953 by Splvakovsky, Is a real romantic virtuoso vehicle In which the composer filvea the soloist every opportunity to shine. Each of the four Brahms symphonies has Its fervent admirers, and most people admit all four to the Inner sanctum of "the Rreatest." Leopold Slmoneau, Canadian lyrlo tenor of distinction, who (Ives a recital In the Fisk University Memorial chapel, Friday, at 8:30 p.m., Is in regular demand as leading tenor with such outstanding opera companies as the Vienna State opera, La Scala, Milan, the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, the Paris Grand opera, the Munich State opera, and the Chicago Lyrle opera, as well as at the world's leading festivals, including the Salzburg, Glynd-bourne, and Edinburgh. His current season has In-eluded opera appearances In Montreal, New Orleans and Buenos Aires, as well as concert and recording dates (He has recorded for Angel, London, Dec-ca, Columbia, Epic, RCA Victor and Westminster records) in Europe, and guest performances with a number of symphony or-ehestras in the United States.

Accompanied by Allen Rogers, Blmoneau will sing selections from Handel's "Pettlngen Psuip" and "Judas Maccahaeus;" two songs of Haydn; Anderson OVER 200 FAMILIES HAVE BOUGHT HOMES This Year in Beautiful Kcnihvorth Estates. Come out TODAY TO OUR OPEN HOUSE ami See WHY. Leopold Simoncau At Fisk tesoro" from Mozart's "Don Giovanni;" three songs of Duparc (which lie lias beautifully recorded for Westminster), and the "Dnnse macabre" of Saint-Suens; a.s well as songs by Chanlcr, Barber, Grlffos, anil Arthur Benjamin, Tickets are available at the Music building. Simoneau is favorably remembered locally for his Community Concert appearance with the Bel Canto Trip in 1957. One of the more exciting prospects of the near future is the local appearance in recital of Zlnka Mllanov.

Though not known to those whose acquaintance with opera stars is limited to such programs as the Telephone Hour and Ed Sullivan, Mme. Mllanov has been regarded ss one of the world's top flight dramatic sopranos for a long time. Much was made of the "battle of the prima donnas" at the Metropolitan a few years ano when Callas came to join, and vie with, Mllanov, the long-established favorite, and Tcbaldl, the much-feted newcomer. It was an exciting season, and the singers all exerted themselves to the utmost, but, of course, Callas did not last very long. Since Milanov has mostly confined her performing to opera and recordings, she has never been heard in Nashville.

Tickets at $4.30, $3.75, $3.20, 2.65, and $2.10 may be secured by sending a check to Mllanov Concert, P. O. Box 13S3, Nash-vllle, or to Claude P. Street Piano 168-170 Eighth Avenue, North. The Ford Foundation has been one of the most liberal and Imaginative of all the foundations In its benefactions to the arts, and especially to music.

Sometime soon I should like to devote a column to its manifold activities, but today, merely mention its latest: a program of grants-in-aid to enable up to 30 administrative Interns to work with symphony orchestras and operatic and other professional theater companies. Selected candidates will spend from one to three years with organizations in one of these fields, preparing for managerial end other administrative careers. Thev will receive stipends of $5,000 yearly plus travel and dependency funds. The American Symphony Orchestra League has launched a new phase of its extensive work in conductor study and training, made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, by granting a conducting study scholarship to 16-year-old John Edward Niles of Lexington, Ky. A high school Junior and member of the cello section of the Lexington Symphony orchestra, Niles has had a dream of being a conductor since he was 10, and has studied piano, cello and theoretical subjects, and availed himself of every opportunity to conduct ensembles In his own community, in workshops and youth musio projects.

The choice of Niles Is of particular Interest here, a he Is the wn of John Jacob Niles. the Internationally known folkslnger, who has sung nt Peabody College and the Centennial Club. Young Niles will carry out his studies unler Halg Taghjlan, assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, combining his regular cello, piano and high school studies with special work and coaching at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory. The concert of the Teabody College orchestra next Sunday afternoon will offer unusual interest In the first local performance of Debussy's lyrical scene "L'Enfant prodigue," and an all-Mozart second half, present a four lledcr of Schubert; "II mlo concert aria for soprano, and the "Haffncr" Symphony. money poured in, songwriting is the thing, I'll write a eong a week and get rich, Th next Burch-Nelson effort was a tune called "Eternally," which was set to a classical theme.

Wayne, now the owner of a Cadillac, recorded It eagerly, but "Eternally" was destined to sell some 7,000 records. At that point, reality dawned upon Burch, Nelson, and Wayne, who at latest report has sold his Cadillac and returned to his old job in a Memphis grocery store. Fred Rrew up In Parluenh, Kenturky, where he cultivated what Is still his favorite non-musical pastime, hunting and fishing. After hlch school came four years In the Navy, mostly as a photographer stationed In Hawaii. He has many happy memories of Hawaii, including the time he and a friend swam out In the dead of night to pirate the Admiral's private launch, with disastrous results.

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