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Andy Lee's "Bach and the Beatles" is a world premiere, of sorts -- its pieces have been performed, but never before staged. "Staging" Bach cantatas and Beatle hits is not as easy as it sounds. It means keeping two dozen bodies onstage through the plotless wanderings of the Peasant Cantata looking as if they belong there, and it means dramatizing John Lennon's wonderful language without distorting it beyond recognition. And -- considering that he snuck this ambitious premiere into a House dining room -- director Ken McBain has managed something of a coup...
...Senator Everett Dirlcsen, 70, cutting his first record album, entitled Gallant Men, Stories of the American Adventure. Backed by orchestra and chorus, Ev recites the history of the Mayflower, The Revolution and other landmarks of U.S. history, including the Gettysburg Address, which he performs as a sort of husky Bach fugue...
...highly regarded Michael Field Cooking School. He is the consulting editor for LIFE'S forthcoming 16-volume series, Foods of the World. An uncompromising traditionalist, Field maintains that "cooks are not creative; they're simply brilliant technicians." Comparing the pianist's task of illuminating a Bach cantata with the task of a cook, he says: "You don't illuminate a souffle-it either rises or it doesn...
...beginning, and built steadily to the end. Hathaway did seem to be rushing the orchestra at many phrase-endings, providing no relaxation or feeling of settling before continuing, but still the Haydn was a success. The entire concert was a credit to the ability and versatility of the Bach Society...
...patterned the oratorio on the styles of Bach and Handel," Levin says. "And I've tried to keep it patently baroque...