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State Dept. tries something new for Soviet tour ALL EDITIONS 4-N The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Sunday, July 30, 1972 lIjrriETil Hardy Price Team is hard to beat Summer i Sunday opeciai In all the excitement created by the release of Roberta Flack's First Time Ever album, a lot of people have overlooked yet another very good around such larger works as the Beethoven Sepet, Schubert Octet, and Spohr Nonet. They included smaller combinations of winds and strings, and at times the two groups played their own repertory, such as the string quartets of Elliott Carter and Samuel Barber and the wind quintet of Ingolf Dahl. By the time the players had made their way through Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev, Tif-lis. Yerevan, Baku and Co-netsk, they had been heard by approximately 16.000 peoplenot a bad figure for chamber music that is rarely performed or unknown.

Mat- thew Raimondi, first violinist of the string quartet, and David Glazer, clarinetist of the-woodwind quintet, reported that very warm and genuinely interested audiences greeted them wherever they went. No hostility was shown to the American works, although Carter might be considered somewhat radical for the kind of musical fare the Russians are used to. In fact, Raimondi and Glazer said, they listened patiently, with a growing absorption in the works. The applause would crescendo impressively when the performance was over. They met with the members arately to Sofia, Bulgaria, where it spent a week participating in a music festival.

Again, the audiences were excellent, but Raimondi said that the concert hall was poor, as opposed to the outstanding auditoriums wherever they went in Russia. They also met with the local composers' union, and this time heard a work for string quartet and orchestra that they liked very much. For Raimondi, there were noticeable sociological changes going from Russia to Bulgaria. "The atmosphere was much more open," he said. "The men's legs were longer and the women's sklrtt shorter." of the composers' unions in Yerevan and i 1 i They found, as many others have, that the music of these official groups was not modern and not very stimulating.

More rewarding seems to have been the exchanges with solo players in local orchestras. These went beyond discussions. The State Department includes in the tour budget money for the purchase of recordings, books, mutes, reeds, strings, which the players could give to the Soviet musicians. These are durable gifts that help the latter to remember the Americans' visit. After the Russian tour, the Composer's Quartet went sep By RAYMOND ERICSON New York Times Service NEW YORK The cultural presentations program of our State Department is not always involved with the glamorous (ballet, symphony orchestras) and the newsworthy (jazz, pop, rock).

For one thing, the larger groups cost too much to send abroad. For another, cultural attaches in the embassies think it wise that the program occasionally show a change of pace. So last May, it put together the Composer's String Quartet and the New York Woodwind Quintet, threw in A 1 i Brehm, double-bass player, for good measure and sent them on a 19-concert tour of the Soviet Union. The programs were built DINNERS Served 12 to 5 PM Regular Menu 12 to 10 PM 43rd Ave fc Northern 931-377 i For The Food You Like Best 13 Different Restaurants Paul Shank's INCOMPARABLE r.t SUNDAY BRUNCH Bar-B-Que Corral Chick 'n Fish Italian Kitchen Pancake Palace Peter Fonq Plush Puppy Seafood Bar Spanish Kitchen Steak 'n Stein Yum Yum Tree Bakery S3 Tina, by all means she's great most of the time. But to hear Ike working out on his own, well it's a whole new ball game.

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With the exception of three numbers, all the tunes are penned by Preston and he seems more at home with his own work than that of others. Top rated is the title tune and "Outa-Space." MS-I12S SCOTTSDALE 11 A.M. 3 P.M. SAFARI HOTEL Jack' Hamburger Mediterranean Otto's Bavarian Hofbrau Menchllev't Meat Fun Fair WTLSON'S WIT Someone suggested a title for a short book on gardening: "Weeder's Digest" The man who says it's a small world has probably been looking for a place to park his car No cowboy hero was ever faster on the draw than a grandmother pulling baby pictures out of her purse Some people work so hard for a living that they don't have time to live Many a man considers himself well off. till his wife starts talking to the neighbors.

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