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When this week's cover artist first met this week's cover subject, neither quite knew what to make of the other. Painter Boris Chaliapin, son of the late, famed Russian basso, is somewhat more at home in the hot world of opera than in the cool domains of latter-day bop. In answer to requests, Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk would mutter, "All reet," greatly confusing Chaliapin. When he finally caught on, Chaliapin replied in Russian-accented retaliation: "All root." During four sittings Thelonious had a disconcerting habit of dropping off to sleep. Chaliapin would yell...
...case anyone has been in hiding for the last two years, Beyond The Fringe is a series of 20-odd bits; many just acted out shaggy-dog jokes that set up a punch line. Three pansies don yellow rain bonnets and finally record basso profundo--a rugged TV ad for "the Man's cigarette." Other skits are extended and often scathing parodies like the first act closer, a merciless debunking of Britain's heroic World War II effort Listening to Dame Myra Hess (a scraggly gray wig accomplishes this transformation) play the moonlight sonata in those courageous British Museum Concerts...
Ruth St. Denis once danced at Spencer's Sunday morning worship. Metropolitan Opera Basso Jerome Hines came in to sing Negro spirituals. Last week Christmas Eve services featured a modern ballet based on the medieval legend of the Juggler of Notre Dame. Glenesk, who is a good enough dancer himself to work out with Martha Graham's company, produced the performance, recruiting dancers from Graham, the New York City Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. He has even donned a leotard himself to prance through the sanctuary in his own choreographed version of Jacob's ladder (Genesis...
When she was growing up in New York, Cathy Berberian used to sing along with recordings of Lily Pons in The Bell Song and Basso Boris Chaliapin in The Song of the Flea-note for note, pitch for pitch. The vocal range she developed eventually settled into an astonishing reach of three octaves -minus one note-more than enough | to sing both Tristan and Isolde. But every sound she is capable of making is required by the freak music she now sings. At 35, Cathy Berberian is the first lady of far-out song...
Born. To Jerome Hines, 41, Metropolitan Opera basso who last year became the first native American to sing Boris Godunov in Russia, won a standing ovation; and Lucia Evangelista Hines, 39, Italian-born soprano: a fourth son, fourth child; in Newark...