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Though the first roulette wheel will not spin for at least a year in Vegas East, even New Jerseyites outside Atlantic City are starting to slaver over the promised tourist bonanza. For?say the prophets?it will not only revitalize the old burg of Miss America and Monopoly but also return to the state nearly $18 million in new tax revenue by 1980 and more than $35 million by 1985. No one, of course, is talking about 1984, the year of George Orwell's novel of the superstate Oceania in which betting for "some millions of proles was the principal...
Hughie, now being presented at the First Chicago Center in Chicago, is virtually a monologue, spoken like a Runyonesque incantation by Erie Smith (Ben Gazzara), a small-time hustler and horseplayer. Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
...year they sing solo recitals. Last Sunday afternoon, they participated in a choral evensong that gave them a far larger role than the regular Sunday morning service, but within a sacred setting. The occasion was Reformation Day, and the program was built around Bach's Cantata #80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ("A mighty fortress...
...only disappointments of the program were the Buxtehude setting of Ein feste Burg, an uninspired set of variations, and the postlude, the brilliant Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata #29 known in solo violin, solo organ, full orchestral, and Moog synthesizer versions. The Sinfonia was played brightly by strings and brass only to be let down by the organ. There was not enough bass registration to carry through the Church--in part, a design flaw of the Fisk instrument--but even the upper voices were too thin to compete with such a healthy orchestra. Coupled with a number of fingering lapses...
...University Choir is an outstanding choral group. Their performance of the Bach Cantata No. 80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, should be well worth hearing. The Fisk organ in Appleton Chapel is particularly suited to this sort of program...