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Twangy guitars, Beatlesque two-part harmonies and a fortress-strong rhythm section--brother Robert on drums and Chris Donato on bass--reinforce the tunes admirably. These guys are tight: no flashy guitar solos, overbearing synthesizers or eardrum-splitting decibels. Just straight ahead rock 'n roll with every note in its place...
...advise the troupe and with his help the cast reinterpreted the production, trimming the show down so that it more faithfully followed the original '60s stage version. Although the theatrical parts of the show were not updated, co-director David Yazbek, in his own words, "funkatized" the music, adding bass and drums and inserting a strong reggae beat. "Musical tastes have changed a lot since 1967." Clarke says...
...Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from its home...
That acting ability, in fact, is what makes Montand such a magnetic singer. His voice is superb, of course, as mellow and true as a bass viol; at 60, he sounds just as good as he did 20 or 30 years ago. But the soul of a Montand song is not just in his voice, it is in his lithe, dancer's body, his mobile face, and his articulate, talkative hands and fingers. The soul is also in the lyrics themselves, and Montand's elegant and inimitable phrasing. The pity, it must be added, is that so much...
COLUMBIA at HARVARDPRINCETON at CORNELL PENN at DARTMOUTH YALE at BROWN LEHIGH at PENN (Sept. 24) LAST WEEK SEASON TO DATE MICHAEL BASS Sports Editor Harvard. 26-7 Cornell. 20-7 Dartmouth. 28-3 Yale. 30-10 Lehigh. 56-0 0-0 0-0 .000 GWEN KNAPP Associate Sports Editor Harvard. 21-7 Cornell. 17-7 Dartmouth. 35-10 Yale. 28-10 Lehigh. 35-3 0-0 0-0 .000 CAROLINE ADAMS Associate Sports Editor Harvard. 21-20 Cornell. 17-7 Dartmouth. 16-7 Yale. 23-7 Lehigh. 31-10 0-0 0-0 .000 MIKE KNOBLER Staff Writer Harvard...