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Fir flying:
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — It’s
not every day you see 35 mandolin
players performing Ravel, or a band
called Brave Combo playing the
Doors’ “People Are Strange” in its
own unique style of rock polka.
But that’s part of the uniqueness
of public TV’s “Lonesome Pine Spe
cials” series.
The series, co-produced by the
Kentucky Center for the Arts and
Kentucky Educational Television, is
a musical odyssey that looks at all
forms of music and dance in differ
ent, often whimsical, ways.
Performers might not necessarily
be well-known, but the series’ pro
ducers hope to change that.
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sent artists that have been ignored
by the media — public television in
particular,” says Richard Van
Kleeck, the series’ artistic director.
“Some of these are actually old art
ists, even legendary, who have sort
of been passed by and never got the
notice they were due.”
A show due this month, “Strength
in Numbers,” will feature five top
Nashville studio session players per
forming what Van Vleeck describes
as country and jazz chamber music.
On one occasion, Van Kleeck has
gotten in the act, during a 35-man
dolin extravaganza, “Mando Magni
ficat.”
When the mandolinists multiplied
to a full orchestra, having played
works ranging from classical to rag
time, they got a conductor — Van
Kleeck, a French horn player who
studied at the New England Conser
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FORT WORTH (AP) — He’s
starred in more westerns than John
Wayne, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry
combined.
Lynn Anderson and Sissy Spacek
love him.
So do Robert Redford, Burt Rey
nolds, George Strait, Tommy Lee
Jones and even Romanian gymnas
tics coach Bela Karolyi.
C&W’s Michael Martin Murphy
has written a song in his honor.
Sleek and dashing, he lives in the
fast lane, but is equally at home on
the range or at trendy polo matches
or most certainly at racetracks
around the whrld.
He’s made some investors instant
millionaires, and admirers say they’ll
wager $300 million on his perfor
mance this year.
At five feet tall, he sounds a bit
short, and at 1,100 pounds, maybe
more than a tad hefty. But what the
heck. You’d be husky, too, if you ate
like a horse.
And that’s what we’re talking
about here. Horses. Quarter horses,
really.
The American Quarter Horse As
sociation, founded here in Cowtown
50 years ago, returns this week to
celebrate its golden anniversary and
honor an animal the group calls “A-
merica’s Horse.”
Don’t fight it.
Thoroughbred breeders may lift a
skeptical eyebrow, but can they ig
nore what purports to be the resume
of the “most versatile horse in the
world”?
According to the association
(AQHA), the American quarter
horse is:
• Skilled in disciplines ranging
from cattle cutting to polo.
• Unequaled as a racehorse in
sprint distances.
• An athlete recognized as the
quickest horse in the world.
• The world’s finest roping, re
ining and cutting horse.
• The most popular breed in
America, and the only breed indige
nous to this country.
He even helped win the Old West.
The real one, not Hollywood’s ver-
kets is the most exciting devel
opment in the breed in the last deca
de,” says association president Brad
Tate.
“It’s as if investors and ranchers
around the world have fallen in love
with America’s horse.”
He said exports were up 22.3 per
cent in 1989 and the total export va
lue grew to $26,818,000.
Back home, quarter horse racing
is also increasing dramatically. The
Amarillo-based AQHA estimates
16,000 such races will be staged this
At five feet tall, he sounds a bit short, and at 1,100
pounds, maybe more than a tad hefty. But what the
heck. You’d be husky, too, if you ate like a horse.
sion.
Maybe that’s why Redford and
Reynolds and those other folks are
all quarter horse owners.
“I’d agree with all those things,”
said Benny Scott of Fort Worth, for
mer owner and publisher of Quarter
Horse Racing. “But if one word best
sums up the quarter horse, it’s versa
tility.
“And there’s no question about
popularity because the breed has the
most horses in its registry.”
The AQHA claims the largest
equine registry in the world, nearly 3
million, and the largest membership,
250,000, including 17,750 members
in 62 foreign nations.
“The growth of the American
quarter horse in international mar-
year, with purses totaling $60 mil
lion and wagering exceeding $300
million.
The Labor Day All-American Fu
turity, crown jewel of quarter horse
racing, offers a $2 million purse —
,$96,909, per second over the quarter
mile.
In 1988, the winner of the New
Mexico race covered the distance in
22 seconds, and its owner earned $1
million on a horse purchased for
$9,000.
A compact and sturdy animal,
quarter horses are renowned for
their lightning getaways, bursting
from a starting gate to 45 miles an
hour in three strides.
The horse got its name from its
burst of speed in quarter-mile races
down the dirt streets of colonial
towns.
Next year, the AQHA will open
the American Quarter Horse Heri
tage Center and Museum in Am
arillo to showcase the horse’s histori
cal role and house the group’s hall of
fame.
So now it’s party time, and AQHA
members are gathering to salute
such founders as the King Ranch’s
Robert Kleberg and the 6666’s Ann
Burnett Tandy and to sing the
praises of their wondrous breed.
Literally.
Country music’s Michael Martin
Murphey and Kathy Mattea head
line a “Festival Extravaganza” at Will
Rogers Coliseum that will end with
the debut of a new song described as
“Murphey’s tribute to America’s
Horse.”
The week-long gala kicks off
Thursday at Billy Bob’s Texas with
an international reception honoring
quarter horse owners from around
the world.
That’s only appropriate, since
Billy Bob’s modestly bills itself as the
world’s largest honky tonk and
spokesperson Becky Tillson likens
the occasion to a “United Nations of
horsemen in cowboy hats jabbering
in German, Italian, Spanish and Jap
anese.”
A so-called “Versatility Chal
lenge” will match five of the top
American quarter horses in the
country competing in a variety of
categories for a sotnewhat token
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