Yet when they present themselves in concert, as they will Friday and Saturday at the Wadsworth Theater in Westwood, everything runs with high-tech speed and oiled smoothness. Florence takes his regular collection of Los Angeles heavyweights through a program of six original works, all scored with great skill. The latest such event takes place Saturday at Blair Field, a baseball arena in Recreation Park. The daily tours through the displays and "hands-on" exhibits will continue but with a different approach for older children.

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This afternoon's excursion is the suggestion and the work of the fine young novelist David Martin "Tethered" "The Crying Heart Tattoo) whom I'd first met at a writers' conference at UC Riverside. They'll have to do better than they did at Santa Monica if they want to keep it going. . And America is also unprepared for the present, sometimes preferring to soften unpleasant reality with deceptive statistics. The last time I hinted of my frustrations with the cornet, I had a thoughtful and challenging letter from Bruce Hudson of Ventura County, a lifelong professional trumpet player.

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