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...realistic tradition in American musical comedy, Pal Joey stands as their fullest realization of their art. Besides the usual virtues of closely integrated book lyrics, and score, Pal Joey offers a singularly compelling study of an individual situation, the depths of which was not approached until Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Although the title of John O'Hara's book leads us to focus our attention on Joey, the significance of the work lies in the eventual illumination that the captivating but amoral and egocentric hero brings to those around him. Joey never seems subject to the ideal...
...program, a bouillabaisse of Copland, Gershwin, Kern, Victor Herbert, Leonard Bernstein and Giuseppe Verdi, was an unqualified success. When the orchestra broke bouncily into the score of West Side Story, even the guests of honor, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, could not help tapping their feet. Despite the hazards of the location and the hackneyed nature of the music, the long concert was one more demonstration that under 40-year-old Conductor Frémaux the once-moribund Monte Carlo Orchestra is fast becoming one of Europe's most gifted ensembles...
...composition full of loud noises and sudden silences-Daniel Pinkham's Catacoustical Measures-to test echoes and reverberation periods. To simulate the presence of a live audience, seats were filled with pointy-headed fiber glass dummies eerily resembling hooded KKKlans-men, while such fine musical ears as Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski and Erich Leinsdorf prowled the corridors, listening critically as technicians shifted the position of acoustical panels suspended from the ceiling to correct defects. Final verdict: O.K. for sound...
...activities not only to the public bars and lobbies but also to backstage dressing rooms and the penthouse quarters of the Philharmonic's top managerial brass. For special events, such as children's concerts, a null TV screen will be lowered behind the stage, and when Leonard Bernstein says...
Today's starting Harvard lineup will find Dick Diehl behind the plate, Phil Bernstein at first, Bartolet at second, Drummey at third, and Morse at short...