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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday december 9,1986 faces n places she s Chris Mas Carroll the Dickens you say i from press dispatches Christina Carroll s name May be enough to make Scrooge laugh and sing but she swears it s no joke. The 26-year-old preschool teacher in Salem  endured the musical yuletide name since birth. I was supposed to be due Christmas but i was born Early she  led to some leasing during Carroll s childhood bul she suspects the name May have helped her win College music scholarship. With All other things being equal her name was sure to Jingle a few , yes on an occasional silent night she1 been slim Chance for adopting Sutie Mcmana 29, display theophy Toque that aug Loflan authorities Fay makes her in unfit Mother. She and husband Michael 33, we refute permission to adopt an orphan on the grounds that the i about 30 pounds too heavy for her height. Suite weight about 203 pounds. Known to play Christmas carols on her flute. Carroll whose father s name is ctr Roll Carroll admits she sometimes introduces herself As Chris. It causes Ess commotion she says. Bach by popular demand this new composer can t hum a tune bul knows Bach As Well As  composer is a computer that uses a program to listen to actual compositions by Johann Sebu than Bach and learn fundamental principles. Then Given a Melody the computer decides what kind of Basic Harmony Bach might have composed around in. The great thing about bringing Bach Back to lifers you can ask him to harmonize a Melody written Long after his death said a id Sirkin who helped create the computer program at the University of Illinois Ai  played a recording of on top of old Smokey composed in the baroque master s style Bihe computer followed by a Bach like version of an indonesian Folk song. The computer produces several variations for each Melody and in can goof since in is making generalizations about Bach s style said Sirkin adding that he computer is still learning about Bach. Sirkin said the computer could learn Rock As Easi Lyas Bach and some Day might be Able to create music for the pop  composer wants to write something that s differ ent that pleases him and hopefully his audience said Sirkin. But you might get a computer that pleases some audiences Marc often than a  still bullish on Ferdinand several generations of fans of Ferdinand the Span ish Bull of storybook Fame who would rather Sil an smell the Flowers than fight gathered at the Balti More Public Library to celebrate the 50lh anniversary of his creation. The Story of Ferdinand was written by Balli Morean Munro Leaf and published sept. Ii 1936.leafs widow Margaret Leaf was the Gucal of Honor at saturday s birthday Celebration. Leaf recounted How her husband on a Rainy Sun Day afternoon in the Winter of 1935, Sal in their Newyork apartment and wrote the Story of Ferdinand in 30  december 1938, the Story of Ferdinand bumped gone with the wind out of the no. Spot on the National Book charts. A year later it was made into a feature length animated cartoon by Wall  than 700,000 hard cover and paperback co pies have been sold in the United states although in contained simple thoughts the Book led to much political interpretation with Leaf finally " to Tave been accused of defending or attacking every in that has popped up in the last few years. As far a to concerned there is one Story there the words ire simple and quite Short. If there a message in them. It is Ferdinand s and not mine Getty from him and according to your  tuba or not tuba they groaned through we wish you a  they bellowed we three Kings of Ori ent  but the sound of 65 tubas working their Way through yuletide carols was music to a Rel flinch hugs ears. It s deep said a smiling Flinchbaugh 3�, of Centerville mass., on Cape cod As she stood in bos ton s Faneuil Hall marketplace Plaza saturday enjoy ing the concert. It sounds like an elephant going to his  by the Boston University school for the arts the tuba concert known As tuba Christmas waste first for Boston according to University spokes Man non uni Allen hundreds of players of the tuba and ill smaller version the euphonium have gathered for years annually at new York City s Rockefeller Center to make unconventional Christmas  brainchild of Indiana University music pro Fessor Harvey Phillips tuba Christmas has become popular around the country As entertainment that gives tuba players a Chance to take Center stage. Or. King honoured at . Coretta Scott King went before the United nations to urge that Martin Luther Kins Day become a worldwide Celebration of his non violent  dedicated a plaque in the main lobby of the .headquarters in Honor of her husband whose birthday Jan,19, is now a . Holiday. Or. King is indeed a citizen of the world and this plaque dedication today reaffirms this fact mrs. King said loan audience that included . Secretary Genera Javier Perez do cd car and . Ambassador Vernon Walters. King express. De dismay that some in the United Stales consider Martin Luther King Day a Holiday for Blacks Only and urged the United nations to make it embrace the whole  King you can have it All that s right you can have it All with Home delivery of the stars and stripes newspaper. 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