Arts and Entertainment
Thursday, October 5, 1978
5
JL n the midst of the national forest
kndge, Mason Williams looks out on the
x ids-filled river that is his front yard. Between
fishing exenrsions, hackpacking expeditions and
lying about periods, he gives careful attention to the
creation of symphonic works for orchestra and. . .
Bluegrass Bana
\:' MasonWjis comfortable as the old knot now
filled with crowded cacti and'resting on a
backyard stump must fate hen before it was
transmuted into a planterc He radiates a quiet
twinkle that manifests its fifth forms like the
plastic fern that fasHtf out $ another nearby stump.
A thoughtfSfrfynassuming sort. Mason lives
with his white shepherd Nussa in the snug home
room, ami
i)replug serves amjS^m'> ■> enierph c ■
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oh a large maia&Frug, '»
The composer's unrk room is paneled
Imam. »o/er drawings tacked from celling to
floor. Musical scutes of phis pieces paper a bat hrtmi^
wall. ^
^ even sense, Mason is worlds away from
Hmy umod. where many of his well-known works
were polished, if not horn. Far from major concert
halls and the reach^f mpg orchestras c^hefs
painstakingly pieced together jubilant mus ietn the
"countryr tradition,, music that springs Jrom^e.
sounds of nature and the folk mumc tradition*
(PjKfjgrtirmt. to Page 4B). * ***J
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