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...could have been a scene from the late '30s, when Goodman's cheerfully crisp, driving style made him the King of Swing and started a new era in American music. Actually, it was Goodman's opening night last week at Manhattan's Rainbow Grill, high in the 70-story RCA Building. Typical of his sentimental sojourns into jazz in recent years, it created a momentary illusion that nothing much had changed. The dancers were mostly of the generation that grew up with him back when cats were hep instead of hip. The tunes were such period...
...correct the record where Sir Har old's information was faulty, or where a dinner anecdote is constructed out of whole tablecloth. But the diarist's perceptions of people, from Churchill to De Gaulle to a rising Tory named Harold Macmillan, are always close-up and marvelously crisp and sharp. And the mood of an embattled nation is mirrored in all its nuances through the changing fortunes...
Persichetti's Spring Canata, a setting of four poems by e.e. cummings for women's chorus, was in contrast vivid and lively. Vaughn Williams's In Windsor Forest, the most voluptous piece on the program, was also the best performed. Kay Tolbert's crisp solo in "The Conspiracy" and the chorus' rendition of the dreamy meanderings of the "Wedding Chorus" were perfectly natural and uninhibited. So were the two spirituals at the end of the program; Archie Epps in "Ride on King Jesus" created a lilting pulse that was still with me long after the concert. And in Britten...
Director Gene Kelly has guided Guide flawlessly, making it as crisp and catchy as one of his old dance routines. But it is hard to see how any moviemaker could have gone wrong with one of Hollywood's ultimate weapons: Walter Matthau. Underplaying the male norm pondering the female form, Matthau creates a triumph of taste in a role that could have been merely low-down and dirty-proving once again that the person who plays the common man must be an uncommon actor...
Last week, in crisp dress whites, Joel and his wife were the guests of President Johnson at the annual