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...narrators of The Accompanist and The Fig Tree must deal with the doubts of the husbands they have cuckolded. In the first story, a pianist leaves a package of apple tarts at her lover's apartment. She arrives home dessertless for a dinner party to which her lover is invited. The husband clowns around, sings bawdy songs and regrets the missing tarts which, he is told, were left at a rehearsal studio. How much does he know? How much does he want to know? There are no answers, only a delicate tension created by Pritchett's great talent...
...consensus of his colleagues is that he has paced himself well. Says Eugene Kohn, a former accompanist and coach of Pavarotti's: "There was fear that he would lose the bloom of sound and the top notes. But if the repertoire stays too light, you don't give the voice free rein. I recently heard him in Luisa Miller in London, and ins voice was fantastically enriched for having sung heavier parts." Pavarotti is preparing the formidable role of Radames in Aida for San Francisco in 1981. Lohengrin may even be down the road some day. "I continue to take...
...good jazz accompanist is hard to find...
...genius at the Manhattan Theater Club's cabaret. One reservation must be made about this frolicsome revue-styled show. Waller was, above all things, a spotlight performer and star entertainer. The structure of Ain't Misbehavin' casts Luther Henderson more in the role of an accompanist. Faithful to the music, Henderson lacks that explosive authority at "stride" piano which was Waller's legacy to U.S. jazz...
...waved a pistol at blacks who tried to desegregate his Atlanta restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears, a black ex-convict. Fears worked as a busboy and dishwasher for Maddox until his boss's restaurant went under. The duo's first big-time booking will be an appearance on NBC's series of Laugh-In specials, scheduled to begin late this year...