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...jazz trio or quartet that would interest aficionados educated by the Voice of America's excellent jazz program. The only opera company that has ever been sent abroad is the Santa Fe Opera, which was triumphant in Berlin and Belgrade two years ago with Douglas Moore's Ballad of Baby Doe-a rare and rewarding peek at the best of American opera...
...arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques (Oct. 30). Paddy Chayefsky, shrewdly going for new ground every time out, has written The Passion of Josef D., a view of Joseph Stalin from 1917 to 1924, from the Revolution to the death of Lenin...
...course, an agonizing and inordinately embarrasing ballad, not only because it is stupid, but also for what it portends for the American people. The country's ever-burgeoning record-buying public consists largely of teen-age girls, people who sadly will soon be America's mothers. These are the people who determine what song shall be Number One. These are the people who are willing to buy a philosophy like "Judy's Turn...
...pleasure, and it carried some Harvard graduates. When the Titanic hit an iceberg the news was quickly relayed home and filtered through the kitchens of the wealthy to the lower-class quarters in almost every American city. The news was large and radiant with symbolism, and it inspired a ballad...
Taste, restraint, and precision characterize She Loves Me, notably in the staging of musical numbers by Carol Haney, a stylist of spoof with the wit to be brief. In a wry ballad of self-castigation, Comedienne Barbara Baxley kisses the pleasures of sex and the single girl goodbye while Jack ("Grand Knowing You") Cassidy is the cat's whiskers dipped in cream as the roue who drove her to ruing. Vitally integrated with the book are the lyrics and music of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who have produced a light operatic score in which song follows song...