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Audacious Initiatives. One artist led to another. Poet-Painter André Verdet ordered a sport coat of grey velvet curtain material. Picasso took one look at Verdet's coat and was off to see the tailor. The two men hit it off instantly, and after Sapone had cooked Picasso some Neapolitan spaghetti, the artist gave him three lithographs and an order to "sew something...
...first person - most notably bright, blonde Barbara Baxley and beautiful black Cicely Tyson. The production is necessarily episodic, fragmentary and uneven, but the cast, ably directed by Gene Frankel, works well as an ensemble to thread an elegiac mood through the range of comedy, rage, reminiscence and introspection. André Womble expertly manages a wide variety of black male parts, from an African nationalist to a run away slave; John Beal does equally well as the nigger-hating home owner of Raisin in the Sun and, in a scene from an un finished play, as a survivor of nuclear holocaust...
...sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch was happiest with the music of the 19th century French Romantics, to which he brought a poetic vibrance of color and texture. Last year French Cultural Minister André Malraux hired him out of retirement to lead the newly formed Orchestre de Paris, and though his health was failing, Munch was determined to be on the podium for the orchestra's first American tour this fall. "My heart may suffer," he said, "but music never...
ANTI-MEMOIRS by Andr éMalraux. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. 420 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...André Malraux is a mysterious fellow -a natural-born actor who saved his histrionics for real life, a novelist who fashioned his books out of the materials of history and wrote himself into most of them in roles he actually played. So multi-chaptered is his life, in fact, and so intermixed is it with the events of his times that no adequate accounting could be contained within one book. Accordingly, when it was announced that Malraux would write the first volume in a projected autobiographical series, it was possible to wonder just which Malraux the author liked best...