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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 10. 1966.

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My record collection has contained a recording of the ballet "Giselle" for five years; it has been played at rather irregular Intervals, usually when I have required music for talking over—the score is pleasant, tuneful but innocuous, and has never stimulated me enough to bother noticing the composer. However, on reading the sleeve-note of a new Decca release, "Le Diable A Quatre" (LXTM 6188) I find that the composer, a certain Adolphe Adam, was responsible for "Giselle" and 11 other ballets. The music has the same characteristics—it is admirably suited to ballet, but the recorded performance tends to be rather meaningless without having seen the ballet. From my reading on this subject, one is not likely to see it performed.

On the credit side, the music is given a "spanking" performance by the London [unclear: Sym] phony under Richard Boynge. Unfortunately I have only heard the mono recording, which is very good.

Recording companies are competing with one another in a seemingly perpetual effort to release Pete Seeger recordings—Folkways CBS, Capitol, and now Encore—"Pete Seeger Broadsides" (ENCM 6001). The majority of the tunes are well-known, for example "Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," "Little Boxes," "Blowin' In The Wind," "Who Killed Norma Jean." and have previously been recorded vocal tone makes this record pleasant. The as on many previous discs; an easy, relaxed vocal tone makes this record pleasant. The mono recording is very good.

On first hearing, Joao Gilberto seems to be a hot favourite for the title of "dullest singer in the world." However, this soft lyrical voice possesses a magnificent sense of rhythm which grows on the listener rapidly Add to this voice a most accomplished guitarist and you have an entertainer par excellence. A new Parlophone disc entitled "The Leader Of A Revolution: Joao Gilberto and the Bossa Nova" (PMCM 1247) is a sure winner which I wholeheartedly recommend On six of the tracks Gilberto is accompanied by an orchestra directed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, the composer of "Desafinado."

The particular appeal of Cher singing "Like A Rolling Stone" is likely to depend on one's views of Dylan singing Dylan. I am one of the "unenlightened" who even prefer the Byrds singing Dylan to Dylan himself, and I enjoy Chér—no doubt ardent "Protest" fans will throw up their hands in horror when they listen to this track on "The Sonny Side Of Chér" (Liberty LBY 3072). Some tracks such as "Bang Bang" "The Girl From Ipanema," "Our Day Will Come," suit Chér's unusual talents. However, some of the others are nothing but a conglomeration of noise. Along with Peter and Gordon's "Hurtin' and Loving" (Decca) this is one of the best regarded pop discs I have heard.