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...Board. But this year, at least, one of the most highly acclaimed offerings at Spoleto was one of the least glamorous. At the unlikely hour of noon, S.R.O. audiences jammed the 370-seat white-and-gold Teatro Caio Melisso for one-hour chamber-music concerts. Most came in shirtsleeves, and the musicians were equally casual. Programs were not printed, but scrawled on a blackboard outside the theater only a few hours before curtain time. They were still subject to change whenever someone in the audience shouted a request loudly enough...
...Concert Sinatra (Reprise) was made with the use of 24 microphones, 73 musicians, four sound stages and one tired singer. The arrangements are far too. glorious for the songs (Bewitched, This Nearly Was Mine), and there is a hint of embarrassment in Sinatra's voice that the echo chamber could not erase. Still, who sings better out in Hollywood? 21 Golden Hits (Paul Anka; RCA-Victor) celebrates Anka's 21st birthday in the groovy style that he has become accustomed to in his six years as a millionaire. All are songs he wrote himself (Diana, Lonely Boy, Summer...
...piece, six-tiered assembly of bamboo rods to be struck by sticks padded with felt. Rising to the grandeur of his tasks, he finally produced the Spoils of War-a big and ugly one-man band strung up on a gallows and made from artillery shell casings, cloud-chamber bowls (from the Radiation Laboratories at Berkeley), a blow-boy (composed of bellows, a 1912-auto-exhaust horn and three organ pipes), a whang gun ("WHANG-OOOO," it hoots when struck), and a raspidor that sounds like mice scratching inside a wall...
...most difficult parts in the show is that of Vida Phillimore, the judge's ex-spouse. Unfortunately, Lynn Milgrin is not quite the woman for the job. She strives hard to be a vamp, a loose woman who attracts men to her chamber like a queen bee, but the effect is rarely alluring, and occasionally ludicrous. When attempting satire, however, Miss Milgrim is more at home, her eyes and hands doing as much as her voice to develop the situation. Her bedroom scene in the second act is particularly fine...
Miss Hiatt has planned the August 15 Sanders concert to display the range of vocal possibilities of a large, mixed chorus. Selections will range from the powerful double chorus and instrumental counterpoint of the Shutz and Bach, to the intimacy of Janequin madrigals by a group of chamber singers, to the modern complexity of Barber's Reincarnations...