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The u.r!h Press Books 0 RadVTV 2 Real Estate News 3 Classified Real Estate 4-15 Section USIC Sunday, July 29, 1973 "---wwwawWiaWfflWHWISMaft "Wf-fTfcJPS oa sum Classics, At That Goocf Reading For Kids Available' Fame Girls Aren't Always Nurses Hall Of For Record i II i Si t. v. a by Poses Problems By WILLIAM ALLAN, A recording hall of fame is ri? Rusk p. I wiZvZ jA The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which annually awards the Grammys, says it will establish a hall to honor records "of lasting qualitative or historical just like baseball honors its Babe Ruths and football has enshrined Lou Groza's shoe. A Cfcoiice To Review The Post Halls of fame are interesting, because they give everyone a chance to review the past-go back over recordings, in this case and chart the trends, map contributions to culture.

While Grammys are awarded for all sorts of music-popular, country-western, Broadway, jazz and classical-the emphasis here will be on classical, naturally. In the top 10 all-time winners, there are four classical stars Horowitz in third place with 10, Erich Leinsdorf and Leontyne Price in sixth with eight, plus Leonard Bernstein in ninth with seven Grammys. Pierre Boulez, Andre Previn and Igor Stravinsky also are in the top 25 all-time greats. Where, then, has classical music been, and where is It headed? The first impression you get from the Grammys is that the awards have been as trendy as popular music. vThey trended toward Stravinsky, when Stravinsky was popular; Ives, when Ives caught on; Bernstein, in Bernstein's heyday and reflected the Horowitz return quite vividly.

Mooj Lauded, Organ Shunned A moog synthesizer recording was adjudged "Record of the Year" in 1969 Classical Record of the In a culture that hasn'f accepted the electronic organ. i cille Clifton. E. P. Ages 4-7.

$5.95. King Shabazz didn't believe in spring. No way. He'd whisper, "No such thing," when his teacher mentioned it at school. But one day, he put on his shades and with his friend, Tony Polito, set out to find spring.

When you read this engaging book, you'll learn what they found. WHAT DO ANIMALS by Ruth Belov Gross. Four Winds Press. $4.95. Did you know that an elephant eats 300 pounds of food a day, a giraffe eats tree leaves (because that's where his head is) and that the enormous blue whale must depend on the tiniest animals in the sea to survive? This is just a sampling of what this book offers, plus illustrations by Don Bol-ognese.

GOING TO THE ZOO WITH ROGER CARAS, by Roger Caras. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Ages 11-up. $5.95. "The lion is called the king of the beasts, but it isn't a king at says Roger Caras, the famed author and naturalist.

"A lion will give way to an elephant, a rhino and often to Cape buffalo. Lions are also referred to as jungle animals, but they are never found in the jungle. They are open plains cats and stay out of the deep forest." The lion, the gnu, the turtle and many others are full of surprises, and in this fascinating guide to the zoo, Caras shares the knowledge of many years spent in studying MAUREEN MALONEY RAY WALSTON Stars "showboating" outside Heinz Hall. 'Show Boat' Has A New Captain By CARL APONE, Press Music Editor In 19C6, the U. S.

State Department chose Milton Lyon's production of "Show Boat" at the Sacramento Music Circus for a tour of Latin America. The production, according to Lyon, stage director and musical director of the Civic they didn't believe him. But when Robert's red string brings fame to the whole family and everyone benefits from it, Robert learns that some secrets are spoiled by sharing. A FIRST LOOK AT MAMMALS, by Millicent E. Selsam and Joyce Hunt.

Walker. Ages 6-9. $3.95.. Puzzles, a matching game and illustrations will actively encourage the beginning reader to observe how groups of mammals are different from each other. PATH OF HUNTERS, by Robert Newton Peck.

Knopf. Ages 11-up. $4.95. SUTHERLAND Great HOROWITZ 10 Grammys. xHang-Ups Author niv To live1 Is to be hungry, and a hungry animal must hunt and kill, so many a smaller creature has to fight or run to stay alive.

But as you study the animals in this book, you'll find they are more than just killers. They love their mates and love their young. But most of all, they love to be alive to play tag, juggle an acorn or slide down a snowbank. As you meet them in person, one by one along the path of hunters, you will know more than you ever knew before about your own life. THE BOY WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN SPRING, by Lu But Myrna and Sidney: their conversations go on nightly; to us it's dialogue preserved in amber, 1950's pop psychology laced heavily with Long Island weltschmerz.

A meeting is at last arranged, but proves more difficult than the fantasies of phone calls. Perhaps my objection Isn't only time, but heart. Forced to watch Myrna make a fool of herself, and Sidney without courage to stop her by honestly revealing himself, we are more embarrassed and angry than moved. The writer has allowed them to revert, as we all along suspected, to types; he's having fun at their expense, and it's hard to forgive him that. Are Reading Dr.

Atkini' Diet Revolution, Atkins. Laughing All the Way, Howar, Sybil, Schraiber. My Young Yean, Rubinstein. How to Be Your Own Beit Friend, Newman. Weight Watcher! Program Cookbook, Nidetch.

I'm O.K., You're O.K., Harrii. Serpieo, Maas. Best and the Brightest, Hal- berstam. Has Own Hang-Up HANG-VPS, by Peter Marks. Random House.

By PAMELA McCORDUCK A New York editor once said he could no longer put out a novel on, say, World War II, no matter how well written, because its time had passed, and the public wouldn't buy. I thought of his remark reading "Hang-Ups," for despite By PATTI MACINO Are the young natives in your house getting restless at this midpoint in summer vacation time? Introduce them to a new book. Reading and losing yourself In fictional fantasies are traditional summer occupations for children some people think the best part of being young and unencumbered on a summer day. BODIES, by Barbara Brenner. E.

P. Dutton. Ages 4-8. $4.95., Everyone has one. With it, you can stand on your head, play in the mud, hold a frog, blow up a balloon, laugh, sleep, sweat, breathe, swing or splash.

What's a body made of? How does it differ from other things? And how does it work. This book, with photos and design by George Ancona, tells you how. GIRLS CAN BE ANY-THING, by Norma Klein. E. P.

Dutton. Ages 4-6. $4.50 "That's not the way it goes," Adam told Marina. He was already putting on the white doctor costume that was in the box. "Girls are always nurses and boys are always doctors." But Marina wanted to be the doctor.

How she educates Adam makes a very good story, with droll pictures that add to the fun. ROBERT AND THE MAGIC STRING, by Ivan Sherman. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. $4.50. Grownups are funny sometimes.

When Robert Hippopotamus brought home the red string and said it was magic, Nixon. "Watch! Ticks On THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE NIXON WATCH, by ohn Osborne. Liveright. $6.95. By DONALD WHISENHUNT John Osborne, who writes a column in the New Republic entitled "The Nixon Watch," has published his fourth volume of collected columns.

They are chronological in order and cover numerous subjects. Interspersed throughout the book at political cartoons by Paul Conrad. Rereading these columns from 1972 is especially interesting since the events of that election year were so full that one tends to forget what happened. Osborne is a very capable writer who understands the presidency very well. He is-able to analyze events and to set them in a proper perspective at the times they occurred.

This is especially evident when reading them today. He is often a critic of Mr. Nixon and is probably branded as such at the White House. In truth, he is often just as critical of Mr. Nixon's opponents.

He certainly does give the President credit when it is due. One weakness of this collection of columns is the necessity of the reader to reconstruct in his own mind the events that are under discussion since Osborne does not set the scene. The most revealing columns included, in light of current events, are those concerned with the Watergate case. Aftermath Of Slaying A GRAVE AFFAIR, by Shelley Doubleday Co. $4.95.

By RUTH M. WHITE Ten years ago, Shelley Smith wrote an excellent novel called "The Ballad of the Running Man." She recently has written an equally absorbing novel It all began with Edmund Burke's affair with Alys da Sylva. They were discreet about their liaison until Alys was murdered during one of their clandestine meetings. Burke's high position as Sec retary of State for Mediterranean Affairs placed him in an extremely delicate position. With the help of a friend, Edmund buried Alys and attempted to resume his normal routine.

A nationalist fanatic, a blackmailer and a neurotic female were determined to upset 's plans for "business as usual." the role. It was my big chance. But the film was a flop and I was a flop. I can name you many stars who succeeded under Billy Wilder. In 1967, Walter Matthau won the Best Supporting Actor award for Wilder's 'Fortune Cookie." But 'Kiss Me Stupid' was a dismal failure and I never got over it." The most satisfying experiences of his career came from playing "Damn Yankees" on Broadway and "South Pacific" in London.

An Irish 'Magnolia' Maureen Maloney of New York City will also be making her debut in "Show Boat" as Magnolia. When she came here to audition, she returned home convinced she did not get the part. "In New York I met a gypsy reading palms and selling zodiac signs on the street corner. He told me I was going to hear 'good news from somewhere in Pennsylvania, I think in The next day I was informed I had been chosen to play Magnolia. It's a fantastic story but I swear it's true." We will have to accept Miss Maloney's word the story is not baloney.

Pittsburgh's Robert Mosley, who has been living in New York City of late, will also be in "Show Boat." He toured in "Show Boat" for the U.S. State Department, and has sung with the New York City Opera and San a i Opera. Inga Swenson and Stephen Arlen, who made their debut last week in "Kiss Me Kate," round out the cast. This -Week In Music Press Features Editor on its wav. PREVIN In top 25.

guitar was widely acclaimed during his four years with Harum.) "Daydream" and the title cut stand out, but the rest of Robin's first solo effort pours out just as much fire and energy. "Love, Devotion, n-der" Carlos Santana John McLaughlin. This one's a matter of taste. Freaky, sometimes downright irritating, this harsh, electric mix of two vastly different guitar sounds is also incredibly beautiful at times. It's less a blend than it is a competition between two laud Light Opera (CLO) this sum mer, was a mixture of the 1927 version of "Show Boat," the revised 1946 version, and "some of me." On Tuesday, Lyon brings this version of "Show Boat" to Heinz Hall in a one week run for the CLO.

Walston To Stor Ray a 1 a veteran actor of stage, screen and TV, will make his debut in the role of a t. Andy. And no one can ac cuse him of a pproaching the role with any fixed ideas in mind. I credible as it may seem, Walston, a friend ly, fast-talking man, has never seen any of the untold number of TV, movie and stage versions of "Show Boat." "I'll have a fresh approach to the role," he said. The CLO called Walston at his Beverly Hills home, "out of the clear blue sky," to play the role.

He and Bill Thun-hurst, managing director of have known each other since both were affiliated with Broadway and road company productions of "South Pacific." Walston's TV series, "My Favorite Martian," ran for three years, 1963-1966, and after that he "got sick when he saw re-runs and was not paid for them." He was paid only for a limited number of re-runs, and most of his pay came in a- 14-month period which means he paid a huge sum in income tax. "I am sorry I was stupid enough not to have had the money paid over a long period of time," he said. He has just finished filming 'The Sting," with Paul Newman, a story about. Chicago con men in the 1930s. But for him, "film work is never satisfying.

I find it difficult to do my best on celluloid. On the stage you are in control, but in film someone else is calling the shots." His Film Flops Walston said the lowest point in his career came in 1964 after Billy Wilder chose him to replace Peter Sellers in the movie "Kiss Me Stupid," when Sellers had suffered a heart attack. "I was chosen over Danny Kaye and Tony Randall for Lyon My Own Woman Yawwnn MY OWN WOMAN, by Suzanne Mitchell. Horizon Press. $7.95.

By RUTH HEIMBUECHER This book is subtitled "The Diary of an Analysis," and so you begin, eager to get a glimpse of another person's innermost thoughts, perhaps to get some second-hand in sights. But, shucks, the thoughts are as maybe prosaic as your own, even more so, and Mrs. Mitchell (a pseudonym), although "terminated" by her psychiatrist by the end of the book, still seems to need help. Of the book is un-doubtedly realistic. Mrs.

Mitchell constantly is being urged by her psychiatrist to talk. When she does, she makes the most superficial observations of her feelings. There are no big, dramatic revelations, and the reader never becomes involved enough in Mrs. Mitchell's life to care much about her, her unloving husband, her drug-dabbling son, her daughter or her fleeting affairs. The reader ends with a feeling of pity for psychiatrists who have to listen to such stuff.

Surgeon's Life Tale THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DR. SAMUEL ROSEN. Alfred A Knopf. $6.95. Reading like a novel, this memoir tells the story of the American surgeon who discovered the revolutionary states operation for the cure of deafness and how he had to fight for recognition of his new method.

There's more stability down in the nominations. While the telecasts (and even the news stories) do not bring out, there are a dozen Grammy awards in the classical They show some amazing goofs. For example, the judges in 1964 passed up an excellent recording of Mozart's Requiem, steeped in the history (the "live" recording of President John F. Kennedy's funeral) Harvard Glee1 Club, Radcliffe. Choral Society, New England Conservatory Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf conducting the- Boston Symphony Orchestra.

A rather routine record of Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols," Christmas carols, was voted the best choral performance of the year. Classical musicians will cringe even more at the 1961 opera competition. The winner was the De los Angeles recording of Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly," a good one but the judges passed up Joan Sutherland's "Lucia," a recording that launched Sutherland on her way and a recording which stands today as the best, even though updated last year. Opera Awards More On-Key Enough grousing. What about the positive side? rThe opera awards reflect Georg Solti's great Wagner recordings, the Tebaldi "Turandot" recording which brought the opera back into popularity and the Leontyne Price "Aida." In fact, the 1962 recording of "Aida" won in the opera category, and the 1971 update took the opera laurels in that year.

Which do you enshrine? In the orchestral competition, Stravinsky has been the giant, with Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky awards in 1962 and 1967 and "Petrouchka" Suites). Boulez conducting Stravinsky won honors in 1970 Sacre du The Stravinsky Violin Concerto (Isaac Stern and Stravinsky) was the 1962 concerto winner. Which brings us to the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, and maybe you wish it hadn't. The Toscanini-Horowitz recording of the Tchaikovsky Concerto is the historic one, of course.

It was one of the all-time great recordings of the work, and just happened to be around when Freddy Martin made "Tonight We Love" so popular. So many people went to their record stores looking for "more," that Toscanini-Horowitz made the "Hit Parade," a fantastic feat for a classical recording. I Then along came Van Cliburn. Yan Took Tchaikovsky Home' i Male Texans aren't supposed to play the piano, let alone a classical piano, but this one traveled all the way to Moscow to in first prize playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. carrying Tchaikovsky to Moscow, so to speak.

And RCA got it all down on a record, complete with the old Russian conductor Kiril Kondrashin, who collaborated with Cliburn. But if you really want the best recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, it is, of course, the Emil Gilels-Fritz Reiner collaboration, which has been pushed back to the half-price specials by all the hooptala unless, of course, you want to go for the sonic splendor of the Rubinstein-Leinsdorf collaboration Thus with a few exceptions (you couldn't ignore either the Horowitz-Toscanini or the Kondrashin-Van Cliburn in any hall of fame), it becomes a personal choice, as is all music. its good writing and chic title, it's oddly out of date. Sidney, 38 and single, on impulse makes his first obscene phone call. At the other end is Myrna, also 38 and single.

Both are lonely. Both are shocked at themselves. But slowly, tentatively, they begin a relationship, and discover one other thing in common: a desperate wish to be married. In some pocket of the Upper East Side, there may be folk still obsessed with marriage, but elsewhere times have changed. Young women I know regard it with very distant interest, and those most notable hunters, the Miami Beach widows, are announcing this winter to everyone in earshot: "What? And take care of someone else's sick husband?" What People Best sellers nationally, according to Publishers Weekly: FICTION Best sellers nationally, according to Publishers Weekly: One li Not Enough, Vonne-gut.

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Sunday curtain, 7:30 p. m. FRIDAY Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Allegheny Commons, North Side, 7 p. free. This re-release shows you where sorrte very interesting heads were back in 1971.

Deep Purple r.g a i Jon Lord wrote this classically arranged piece for the London Symphony and various lead instruments: guitar, bass, piano, drums, vocals (a "type" of instrument) and, of course, organ. two other Purple men (drummer Ian Paice, bassist Roger Glover), Yvonne Elli-man Mary Magdalene), Tony Ashton (Ashton, Gardner Dyke) and Albert Lee (Heads Hands Feet), Lord leads an impressive, powerful wave of sound. Cut's four, "Vocals," and six "Organ" are By TONY PALERMO When your record1 shelf sags in the middle, you know you're behind in your LP reviews. When it breaks well. Here's a bundle I had to pick up off the floor: "Head To The Sky' Earth, Wind Fire.

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Luckily, like Bette, these gals have the vocal power behind the campi-ness to pull it all off. Their rhythm blues comes across best on record, whether it's meshed with a bit of jazz We Can or some good ole rock 'n' roll Dang "Gimini Suite" -Symphony Orchestra London Folks like to compare this bunch with War, but the first difference that hits you with F's brand of jazz-rhythm blues is the smoothness of Jessica Cleaves' vocal work. Then, the extra slug of in their style. Imagination (plenty of it) is what the two bands have In common and ''Head" displays Earth, Wind Fire's nicely rhythmic," 13-minute finale, "Zanzibar." Removed From Trower. Heavy metal here, with a tinge of the old Procol Harum aristocracy.

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