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OCCASIONALLY DURING a concert an orchestra achieves an emotional rapport with its audience which transcends the notes. Last Saturday night during its last performance of the season, the Bach Society and the Sanders Theatre audience struck a sympathetic chord as they bade farewell to this year's conductor, Neal Stulberg...
...represent a new political generation," says Governor Jerry Brown, "and I have struck a chord here in California. The question is how deep it is, and can it sound everywhere else?" In search of an answer, Brown, who once described the governorship of California as "a pain in the ass," is seeking the mortification of the presidency...
...performer who recorded Patti Smith's Horses album is very different when she gets away from the vinyl. Backed by a very rudimentary R&Roll band with monotonous rhythms and very confined three chord 4/4 beat, with no electronic overtracking, overdubbing and overecho, she is very challenging and very real. She taunts the audience, she does battle with them, and she comes out ahead...
ELSIEBURGERS. DIXIE CUPS and a disciple imitating David Frye imitating Nixon--these marks of contemporary and peculiarly Harvard culture strike the dominant chord of John Manulis's production of Godspell. And not unfittingly. After all, the premise of Godspell is the special contemporary relevance of the Christian message. The show's book is the Good Book, and its lyrics mostly simple exhortations to faith; but here the Word is transplanted to a junkyard where the innocents who make themselves up as Jesus' disciples cavort in patchwork splendor...
...seven foot Indian how to stuff, for example. During the day it's sports, at night it's poker. McMurphy's real problem is that he is a child who never grew up, who believes in the therapeutic power of good team sports. Perhaps this will strike a responsive chord in most audiences. McMurphy's other chief preoccupation is sex. There is a young boy in the ward named Billy Bibbit who has never had sex and has, apparently, been driven to psychosis and suicide attempts by a repressive mother. His case is the one cure that McMurphy attempts with...